Homeware retail giant IKEA appears to be a victim of its own success.

Police had been investigating the proceeds of a criminal's drug-selling activities across the North Island.

The disgraced former deputy police commissioner was sentenced to home detention after pleading guilty to the possession of child sexual exploitation and bestiality material.

Cordons are in place after a man was fatally injured at a Hamilton Lake address.

More than a thousand cubic metres of sewage overflowed from a Watercare pump station in late October.

Waihī North extension of OceanaGold's Waihī mine has gained approval.

Under New Zealand law, prisoners are entitled to at least one hour of physical exercise a day.

The school board said it would challenge the decision by the Secretary for Education.

He'll join Ingrid Hipkiss on the flagship news programme next year.

The family of an elderly woman with severe dementia say they had to be at hospital every day to ensure she was fed, medicated and showered.

This was a targeted act of violence, police say.

Trouble getting a chopper to help a girl trapped on a cliff face was not an isolated incident, the firefighters union says.

Items of climbing equipment were found within a known icefall hazard zone on the upper Linda Glacier.

Hutt Valley Police are investigating what they are calling a disturbing instance of extreme violence, which has left someone with critical injuries.

Locals told RNZ the Mangapurua and Kaiwhakauka tracks are closed while police are in the area, as well as several huts along the route.

Whangārei district councillors voted unanimously against the proposal which would see 8 million cubic metres of sand removed over a 35-year period.

He made a mayday call after allegedly being stabbed by his crewmate - but soon found himself under arrest.

MetService says the pattern of periodic cool weather is likely to be prolonged.