A helicopter was working to dampen a smouldering vegetation fire in Makara this morning. Fire and Emergency received a call about the blaze from a vessel in Cook Strait at about 8pm. While crews ...

The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly under-qualified many of our councillors are. An amendment proposed by Councillor Calvert to try and keep the rates increase below 10% vs.

A motorcyclist has died in a crash near Feilding. Police were advised just before 8pm last night that a motorcycle had crashed on Kawakawa Road. The motorcyclist was found dead on the road.

A crash closed SH3 north of Whanganui for three hours today. NZTA reported the crash at 10.30, at Westmere north of the Blueskin Road intersection.

Hamilton mayor Paula Southgate will leave politics in October, saying it’s time to make room for younger, emerging leaders. Southgate was elected mayor in 2019 and was the Waikato’s only ...

Police are seeking witnesses to a family harm incident in Khandallah yesterday. About 12pm on Thursday, Police were called to a bus stop on Cockayne Road after a man was seen holding a bladed ...

A motorcyclist critically injured in a crash in Palmerston North on 6 January has died in hospital. The crash, involving a car and a motorcycle, occurred at the intersection of Victoria Avenue and ...

The Art of Banksy – the exhibition at Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre – has brought Banksy’s era-defining ...

Report from RNZ by Pokere Paewai, Māori issues reporter One of the great champions of te ao Māori Dame Tariana Turia has been ...

Aotearoa New Zealand’s 10th-warmest year on record. The 2024 nationwide average temperature calculated from NIWA’s seven ...

A’ freak’ stingray attack on a keen local fisherman at a southern Hawke’s Bay beach has left the man hailing the lifesaving ...

It’s back to work for most of us this week, but a Wellington couple’s commute yesterday morning was a little bit different. The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, had seen in the news ...