A Hastings lawyer has been charged with stealing almost $80,000 of client funds.

An irate Whangarei businessman fed up with repeated break-ins at his mechanical workshop is planning a sleepover on site to catch

A woman was freed after the car she was in plunged 35m into a river on State Highway 5 yesterday afternoon. Fire fighters had to

Civil Defence said the national support effort will continue tomorrow following Monday morning's 7.5 magnitude earthquake near Kaikoura.

A woman whose car has gone into a Hastings river is not injured or in trouble, but is still in her car.

A number of schools have been closed due to flooding, affecting some students due to sit exams after afternoon.

A mother was subject to domestic violence for 15 years before she sought support from the Women's Refuge and fled her abusive husband. "My

Preliminary modelling suggests that the earthquake was caused by a rupture of a northeast-striking fault t, but this may be a more complex event.

Two men who showed every sign of intending to rob a Kaitaia service station in the early hours of Thursday morning were spectacularly

Wellington CBD is open for business, but workers should check with their employers before heading into town for work.

A 100-year-old woman pulled alive from the rubble of her farmhouse had lived on the homestead for 64 years. Margaret Edgar was asleep

Government forces including transport ship Canterbury will be mobilised to get about 1000 tourists out of earthquake hit Kaikoura.

Anyone with damage should lodge claims with the Earthquake Commission within three months.

The capital is in shutdown after the deadly earthquake overnight.

A volunteer Wairoa firefighter who was called out to help fight several scrub fires early on Saturday returned to the station just

Two people have died and several people suffered non-fatal heart attacks following the main 7.5 magnitude earthquake in North Canterbury.

Heavy rain and wind is forecast to batter the upper South Island and lower North Island this afternoon.

It's beginning to feel like summer in some parts of the country, with pohutukawa bursting into bloom. "People have been getting a

At least five homes have been evacuated and a main road has been closed after wild weather struck in the Wellington region.

As his frustration grew, Dustin La Mont went to ever more extreme measures to tackle his noisy neighbours.

The wet and windy spring weather looks set to continue but the warm summery temperatures are coming to an end this weekend.

Two people have been seriously injured in a road accident near Petone.

Beatrice (Betty) Erica Wakely, the last surviving female member of the RSA in Dannevirke who served overseas during WWII, has passed

The Parklee Bullride at the Central Hawke's Bay A and P Show tomorrow is set to go ahead after the government announced rodeos would

A Whangarei school has apologised to the family of a boy who banged his head on a wall while being disciplined by a teacher who has

The grandfather of a young Northland rugby player who died after receiving a head knock in a game - suffering a "re-bleed" of a large

Rare November snow is forecast for the South Island with road snowfall warnings issued for some alpine passes.

Mainfreight managing director Don Braid says he will take on more trucks and ships in the lead-up to what he expects to be record

A man on the run from authorities and considered dangerous left a message on the Northland police Facebook page next to his own mugshot

A Northland dairy owner hit on the head with a tyre iron during an attempted robbery says nine months' home detention for his attacker