The plan to revamp the state highway corridor from the Terrace Tunnel through to Kilbirnie is expected to cost $2.9 billion to $3.8 billion.

Councillors unanimously supported the ban, but stallholders have urged them to rethink the changes, calling for "practical, fair" rules.

The heritage building has been sitting empty since it was closed in February 2023 due to earthquake risk, after more than 90 years in business.

Predators remain the biggest issue for fairy terns after only 11 out of 29 chicks survive.

It's been a week since a two-year harvesting ban on the Hauraki Gulf coast in north Auckland came into force.

It comes as the council grapples with the costs of last years floods and three waters infrastructure, on top of its core business.

About 25 firefighters attended the blaze at a Ponsonby automotive shop.

Petrol is already surging again, and Iran is vowing revenge on other countries' gas supplies after the world's biggest natural field was attacked.

A scathing report said the former Chathams council chief executive's actions in an upgrade to his own accommodation were unacceptable.

Councillors agreed on Thursday to lodge a 35-year resource consent application for discharge from the Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Hector says he was not told how the compensation panel arrived at the $90,000 figure, but the offer was essentially take it or leave it.

Self-testing for human papillomavirus was rolled out nationally in September 2023.

Watercare is compensating nine oyster farms a total of $2.75 million after the sewage event last October.

The favourite budget meat has hit an all time high, but is all mince created equal?

It comes after two high-profile security breaches involving health data at other companies in the past few months.

Polyfest is the world's largest secondary school Pasifika cultural festival held annually since the late 1970s.