She checked her ticket about 49 times, but despite her initial scepticism, the numbers didn't lie and a Paihia woman is now $500,000

Home values in Tauranga continue to soar, as QV release its latest report. Values have increased 28.5 per cent year on year and 7

A four-wheel-drive towing a boat crashed and ended up on the wrong side of State Highway 1 south of Whangarei, narrowly missing a

An early morning hunt for stingrays nearly ended in tragedy for an orca in Whangarei Harbour after it got stranded.

Hawke's Bay and Gisborne police are among the least "engaged" with widespread belief they are unable to deliver on promises made to

The Havelock North water contamination crisis could cost more than $700,000 of ratepayers' money. In a Hastings District council

An ocean conservationist instrumental in setting up the Poor Knights Islands marine reserve has welcomed the more than $25,000 fines

The East Coast continues to be rattled by aftershocks with several moderate quakes jolting the region overnight.

Heritage campaigners have launched a last-ditch effort to save an historic Waikaremoana building.

Reports of damaged homes are starting to come following this morning's 7.1 quake which triggered a tsunami warning, closed schools and temporarily stopped trains.

Scientists say it would have been impossible to predict today's earthquake even though a tremor a day earlier was probably a foreshock.

This city has beaten 82 entries from cities worldwide to be recognised as a leading safe city.

This morning's M7.1 quake is the biggest to hit the north of the North Island in more than 20 years, when a M7.2 quake struck in a similar spot in 1995.

A Whangarei teen treated as his father's "dogsbody" has been jailed for more than nine years, for his role in the country's largest

Civil Defence has cancelled the tsunami warning issued for the North Coast Regions of the North Island following this morning's 7.1 magnitude quake.

Much of the North Island was shaken awake this morning with a magnitude 7.1 earthquake felt from Northland to Wellington.

The Waitangi Treaty Grounds is a finalist in the New Zealand Tourism Awards, going head-to-head with TIME Unlimited Tours of Auckland.

Convictions in Rotorua for cannabis possession have fallen more than 66 per cent in the last six years - adding fuel to nationwide

The Japanese tourist whose belongings were stolen when the driver he hitched a lift with sped off has seen another side of Northland

Courts let dangerous American pitbull terrier cross live after nine months on death row. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

A teenage boy who fled from a car during a police chase has been arrested after he was found hiding in a treehouse. Westshore, Napier

When Jo and Brian Guy's son Scott was murdered near Feilding six years ago it set into motion a series of tragic events and traumas.

A former Whangarei Department of Corrections worker awarded $7000 after she complained of sexual harassment - including an allegation

A Napier business owner could do nothing but watch, as a car left the road and plunged into the side of a building last night. Emergency

The Ngapuhi Runanga has decided to extend Sonny Tau's leave as chairman of the board for a further six months after he was found guilty

Police are thanking a member of the public who helped to tackle a man who had just assaulted an officer with a chair in Kaikohe. Senior

A drug dealer has been told a lengthy jail sentence is likely after police charged him with bringing more than $300,000 worth of methamphetamine

Cattle can freely walk into our rivers and defecate despite heightened water safety concerns in the wake of the gastro crisis.

For many, a cancer diagnosis spells a bout of nauseating radiation and chemotherapy. But for 36-year-old Northland woman Alethea

Havelock North residents will soon be drinking Hastings water - which will be chlorinated for the foreseeable future. The supply