He'd spent the past two days hunting, and then he somehow died while walking home.

A school that has been hit by fire and three tragic deaths this year has finally got some good news - a $4m repair job for its leaky classrooms.

Stricken paddleboarder plucked from Auckland's Waitemata Harbour after losing his way home.

As the bulk of the Gisborne district remains without power after plane crashed into high voltage lines, the residents of the region are mucking in.

It could be two or more days before the Gisborne area gets power after a light plane crashed into power lines this morning, cutting electricity to the city.

A staffer in East Coast Bays MP Murray McCully's local office has been selected to contest the seat at next year's election.

Aftershocks have continued to shake the North Island after it was hit by one of its biggest earthquakes in decades.

Sheep, hills, remoteness and rockets. New Zealand is about to blast off from distant Mahia and into the world's $350 billion space economy.

NZ First Leader Winston Peters is promising to announce “game changing” policies to tackle social inequality.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig is today expected to announce he will contest Murray McCully's East Coast Bays seat in the September election.

A survey off the North Island's East Coast has uncovered a huge hidden network of frozen methane and methane gas.

It's one of NZ's biggest natural disaster risk zones. Now scientists hope to know more about a rare quake phenomenon happening off the North Island's Poverty Bay.

A surf boat crew will stage a symbolic row down Auckland's North Shore tomorrow, as they prepare for a commemorative international race in Turkey next year.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig's family has succeeded in having electorate boundaries redrawn to get his parents and about 120 neighbouring voters shifted into the seat he hopes to win.

The driver of a Jeep who told police "I am God" after ramming into a police car and causing a fatal eight-car pile-up on Auckland's North Shore has been found not guilty by way of insanity.

Recap of all the club action action throughout Auckland, Counties Manukau and North Harbour.

John Key says he is not interested in seeking an apology from North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams over late night text messages.

North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams has hit back over revelations of his late-night "obnoxious" texts to John Key.

More than 25 live cattle found wandering loose on the North Shore have been returned to their owner.