Grab the wet weather gear as rain is on its way, and high winds are set to hit.

Low-decile schools are slowest to join new a scheme that funds extra teachers

Tasman police are urging motorists to avoid part of State Highway 6 due to a diesel spill.

There appeared to be only minor injuries, a police spokeswoman said.

Showers are likely for much of the North Island today, according to the MetService.

Find out what's happening in your region as Cyclone Cook sweeps in.

Enjoy the sun while you can, rain is back from Wednesday

Govt will not introduce a formal policy to protect medical cannabis users.

Leo Lipp-Neighbours went missing in 2010. Police may be close to solving 7 year mystery.

Heavy rain is expected across NZ this week in the wake of Cyclone Debbie

Police called the result disappointing, saying no one should be selling alcohol to minors

Weather for Adele's concert tonight forecast to be worst of star's three Auckland dates.

A warm, sunny week is expected across the North Island before the weather takes a turn for the worse on Friday.

An Air New Zealand flight was forced to turn around after striking a bird this morning.

Police executed the search warrants in an effort to reduce social harm from drugs.

They helped raise more than $2 million to help secure a part of the Abel Tasman for the public.

The brother of a woman saved from Harwoods Hole has opened up on the tense wait.

One of two people who died in yesterday's three-vehicle crash near Nelson was a local.

Multiple passengers have reportedly been critically hurt, with two dead, in a three-vehicle crash.

The man spoke to a child in the Nelson suburb of Enner Glynn

Labour has still not settled on who its new MP will be if Jacinda Ardern wins the Mt Albert by-election on Saturday.

Burglars help thems-elves in Lord of the Rings jeweller break-in.

An online car dealer who took deposits but failed to supply cars to at least 16 people has now paid refunds to at least three complainants.

DoC staff were tonight monitoring a pod of about 200 pilot whales milling around in the sea off Golden Bay.

Hundreds of volunteers last night kept a vigil over 120 whales restranded on Farewell Spit near Golden Bay.

Twenty pilot whales have beached themselves again and will be euthanised, DoC said, as volunteers are warned to be careful around decomposing whales.

All 100 of the surviving beached whales at Farewell Spit have been successfully refloated as volunteers scrambled to stop another pod swimming into shore.

Emotional scenes as whale rescue volunteers sang to and even named many of the pilot whales stranded - and those refloated - on Farewell Spit.

Volunteers desperately trying to save 100 surviving whales that have beached on Farewell Spit are being warned about the risk of sharks in the water.