Napier MP Stuart Nash called yesterday for bottled water companies to "step up and provide a couple of truckloads of water to the

A shabby ute is being used to protest suburban snobbery just north of Wellington.

A woman who fell from a horse was picked up by the Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter and airlifted to hospital today.

Leanne Prichard and her daughter, 16-year-old Bella, can't wait to start their new life in New Zealand in the perfect girls' pad - House 1 from The Block.

An employee sustained serious burns to his calves and arm when the adhesive he was using caught fire.

Public transport fares will now be calculated by the number of the city's 13 zones someone travels through, rather than how many trips they take.

An elderly man has been picked up by rescue helicopter after he severely injured himself when his quad bike rolled.

The skipper of a fishing boat who suffered serious pelvic injuries while at sea off Northland was winched aboard a helicopter in a dramatic rescue.

Auckland Council says 25 names were left off its candidate list for the upcoming local elections due to an "administrative oversight".

Think you have bad neighbours? This woman got an anonymous note about out two 'shabby' cars in her driveway.

There are 17 people in the running for the Auckland Council's top job.

It is understood that he was caught in a potato harvesting machine while working on a property in Barber Rd, Moutoa, just north of Shannon.

They say karma comes in many forms - and for some brazen Wellington car thieves, it was the pungent smell of a stoat's backside.

A woman's house was burgled and a few days later she saw a teenage stranger wearing her clothes.

It looks like a winter wonderland - unless you're a farmer who has lost stock and fences, say Hawke's Bay locals struggling after the area's worst snow storm in more than half a century.

A meeting to make final decisions on a new blueprint for Auckland took a major twist this morning when members of the Maori Statutory Board opted out of the process.

Maori pop phenomenon Poi E is sung with gusto and abiding love at the close of the Patea Maori Club night every Monday night. For

The acclaimed and well-documented Hawke's Bay bach First Light is on the market. Named after New Zealand being the first country

Welcome relief as new police help Northland officers stretched by a jump in serious crime.

Man on sex charges dies before trial.

The man wanted in relation to this evening's shooting in New Plymouth has been found. Police confirmed they were not looking for anyone else.

A homeowner has partially succeeded in her appeal to the Supreme Court, alleging negligence by the Whangarei District Council in a leaky building case.

An intellectually disabled Whangarei teenager who admitted committing a string of burglaries, including breaking into a newly-wed

A Northland man is counting his lucky stars after he woke up in time to flee a burning cottage that was completely destroyed. An

After a night of freezing temperatures, heavy rain and snow, forecasters are predicting more of the same today.

A woman is in stable condition in hospital after an incident in Clendon Park, south Auckland, this afternoon.

Police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen a male approach a 12-year-old girl in Hamilton.

Tenant had been drinking and was stressed after a bad day. So she lit a fire in the kitchen of her Housing New Zealand home.

A Napier man who killed one and seriously injured two others while driving drunk has appealed his sentence, claiming it is "excessive". Tyler

A horse has been put down after being hit by a vehicle in the seaside town of Haumoana, Hawke's Bay, yesterday morning. Police were