Eruption activity has subsided but another eruption could occur at any time with little or no warning, according to Civil Defence. Read the latest.

As Ireland prepare to face the All Blacks at Eden Park today, Dean Parker recalls how the New Zealand battle cry influenced one of their greatest writers

Police have arrested 150 people for drug offences in a two-month drug operation..

Tame Iti and his colleagues weren't the only ones on trial for the past five weeks. The terrorism claims in the still-unresolved Urewera case have revealed deep divisions over Maori and Pakeha