Whanganui Mayor Hamish McDouall has rejected a report by the Maxim Institute suggesting many regions like his will drop or stagnate within three decades. Made with funding from NZ On Air
Stirling Sports hadn't even replaced its shop front before it was ram raided for the second time in five weeks. At around 12.30am
A lack of Spark reception up North means more people are being denied home detention, and instead going to jail.
WATCH: The way a Black Power gang couple exchanged their wedding vows is going viral.
A man has been seriously injured after being hit by a car on a rural road near Katikati.
Searchers have confirmed that the body of a 21-year-old student missing at Lake Karapiro has been found.
While autumn starts this week, summery weather is expected to continue for a while.
A stray cat found in a loose leg-hold trap has had to be put down.
North Island Showjumping Champs in Tauranga 'fantastic', says organiser.
It's now thought nobody was home when a Mangakino home went up in flames this morning.
A body of a person killed in a car crash in a remote patch of Te Urewera is still in the car.
COMMENT: On a road trip to settle his youngest son into university and as he prepares for an empty nest, Andrew Dickens is proud of his country - and his boys.
'The Boss' Bruce Springsteen and the annual Pride Parade headlined a 'Super Saturday' for the City of Sails yesterday.
Mike King's appearance at the piggery near Levin helped in the campaign to ban on sow crates.
Nana relishes time with her granddaughter at national kapa haka festival Te Matatini in Hastings.
An ancient fossil of a giant penguin - discovered near Kawhia in 2006 and estimated to be 28 million years old - has become an official
A woman living near a property where five people were injured in a gang-related shooting heard glass smash and a man yelling 'help
Levin teenager Erin Buckland was stunned to meet and train with her Black Cap heroes in Wellington.
National kapa haka festival Te Matatini has started in Hastings today with an emotionally charged opening performance from Auckland
A motorcyclist who collided with a school bus south of Whangarei was flown to the Middlemore Hospital with spinal injuries. The crash
A 47-year-old Northland woman remains in a stable but critical condition following a serious vehicle crash on the Kamo bypass. The
I thank the committee for the opportunity to make a personal submission on voluntary euthanasia which I believe to be one of the most
11:09am: A gas main ruptured in Papamoa has been sealed off and is being repaired. Fire service spokesman Scott Osmond said a digger
Waiting for home help to arrive and worried that she would be left to fend for herself, 96-year-old Trixie Cottingham tried to make
Hawke's Bay teen sentenced for causing crash that killed a young American.
A Napier man with a "chequered history" was sentenced to five months' home detention yesterday after pleading guilty to stealing thousands
A wharf cleaning machine and driver plunged 3m off a wharf into Whangarei Harbour during a night shift. The driver of the small tractor
A Tauranga school principal says substandard housing in the city is making children sick - with 11 of her pupils hospitalised within
Te Matatini - the meaning of it says it all. "The many faces". It was bestowed upon what had started out back in 1972 as simply
A Tauranga man caught importing ecstasy powder and tablets, who claimed he got the idea from watching a television programme, has
A Tauranga family could lose everything after racking up $380,000 in debt.
Bad weather has forced the start of a major air show to be postponed, as much of the country braces for stormy conditions.
It seems garden tools are in hot demand - with a rise in reported thefts this summer.