New Zealand have won back-to-back gold medals at the world rowing championships at Lake Karapiro near Cambridge today.

Wilderland, an alternative community on the Coromandel Peninsula, has been ordered to evacuate and demolish all its dwellings.

There would be plenty of mana in customary marine title without the power to exclude the public from sacred sand.

A former high-profile principal says he will defend dozens of charges against him that include money-laundering, false accounting and fraud.

The slain Kahui twins' grandfather today admitted lying to police to protect his son Chris, an inquest into the twins' deaths has heard.

The Kahui twins' grandfather drove 50km to search for their mum when baby Cru stopped breathing, instead of taking him 4km to hospital, an inquest hears.

A trackside fire has shut down train services on Auckland's Southern and Eastern line between Otahuhu and Papakura.

Christchurch was today confirmed as the venue next year for New Zealand's annual mid-season rugby league test against Australia.