Weekly benefit rates will be lifted by between $32 and $55 per adult by April 2022.

Weak positive results now confirmed in Wgtn, Chch, Rotorua, Queenstown wastewater.

The Pacific Peoples minister is hailing the package as a significant investment.

A new member speaks of why she joined Toastmasters.

New Zealand Dairy Industry Award winners demonstrate perfect progression pathway.

Dali Susanto's small room of immersive work aims to help people to focus on the present.

Born and raised and worked in Hastings Claude Davison can spin a good yarn. He's seen a lot and done a lot but he says the old times were the good times. Reporter Shannon Johnstone/Video Warren Buckland.

The rising superstar will perform at Pettigrew Green Arena in August.

'Our trust in her couldn't have been greater,' say ex-bosses of woman who stole from them.

Winds spark birds' escape.

Flanked by firemen (just in case) Claude Davidson whipped out a leaf blower.

A unanimous show of hands.

Information 'strongly suggestive ... that the death was unrelated to vaccination'.

Services were restored within about four hours.

"By not protecting ourselves and our children, we set ourselves up for skin cancers."

In the tradition of Burt Munro before him, comes Hawke's Bay man Walter Rands-Trevor.

The apartments are Napier's only example of the streamline moderne style.

Power lines down, road signs broken - it wasn't just the wind causing mayhem.

Hawke's Bay music artist Lucid Hiest has made the move to full-time rapper/producer.

Both artists have won many awards for their music across the years

We are on the move - and our current house finally looks as I have always wanted it to.

There is plenty of room for compassion, but $7m is a lot of compassion.

Birth and parenting educator Janine Gard talks about rituals during pregnancy.