The dog, which had bitten before, was seized by animal control after the attack, but the owner will not give permission for it to be destroyed.

New Zealand has the "best seat in the world" to view it - so when can you see it and how?

A years-long cleanup project is now working to restore Lake Horowhenua back to health, after decades of raw sewage was pumped into it.

A councillor says "there's a time and place for protests", but a veteran protester thinks approved protest zones are contrary to NZ's sense of democracy.

Ashburton builder Paul William John Stevens has been sentenced for the shooting.

Shepherd's beaked whales live in the deep sea, and only come up to shore if something is wrong

Tens of millions of litres of sewage could be pumped into the ocean each day, but the level of treatment and the length of the discharge are still not public knowledge.

Temple has won an appeal against his sentence for indecencies involving young women.

Poseidyn Hemopo-Pickering's injuries being caused by an accidental fall from a short distance did not seem plausible, a neuropathologist told the court.

McSkimming invited a woman who he was having a sexual relationship with to stay at the hotels with him, the IPCA found.

Tauranga City Council says it investigated 38 complaints about urban hives with 34 of those relating to poo.

Staff are out in South Auckland after finding more Oriental fruit flies in Papatoetoe on Monday.

A section of SH1 south of Auckland is closed after a car and motorbike collided.

Explainer - The world is an increasingly dangerous place. What do you do if you're caught up in a conflict like the one raging in Iran and the Middle East?

MetService was forecasting three-metre swells and winds of up to 74 km/h in the Strait.

Bexley's Wetlands Grove is the last remaining road leading to an old subdivision.

Renovations to add much-needed space to the ED are underway with workers saying they've had up to 26 patients in the corridor.