Protests and arrests at Ihumātao

Mum's plea to dog owners to watch for young children at popular park is vandalised.

Focus Live earlier: Comancheros slaying: Life sentence for 'main guy' in execution

Focus Live earlier: Take a look at the Master Builders’ ‘Southern Supreme House of the Year’

Baby deaths have been linked by the DHB to factors including lack of staff and bedspace.

Ministers got it wrong when they said only NZ citizens would get a firearms licence

Focus Live earlier: Beach-goers weigh in as council backs down on planned further restrictions for dogs on beaches Video / Leon Menzies

Focus Live: Government wants gun register, ban on visitors buying weapons

Focus Live earlier: Developer Chenying Zhao ditching plot for half the $7.5 million purchase price

Focus Live Earlier: Major delays and cancellations on Bluebridge cook strait ferry services.

Focus Live earlier: Police confirm 9 year-old killed in Clyde River crash

Focus Live earlier: He threw the dog across the room like a rugby ball. Man sentenced for animal cruelty in Tauranga district court

Focus Live earlier: Mobil station charged employees for drive-offs

Focus Live: All Black star Beauden Barrett to play for the Auckland Blues

Focus Live Earlier: Incident involving 'highly toxic' chemical in south Dunedin.

Man dies after boat capsizes on Hokianga bar. Video / Will Trafford

Focus Live earlier: Trains cancelled in and out of Wellington

There are two new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation facilities and Health Minister Chris Hipkins says the man who escaped a Hamilton hotel last night evaded the police guard.

One person killed in Orewa, two car crash. Video / Will Trafford

Focus Live earlier: PM announces plan for 61 new schools across the country

Focus Live earlier: Traffic chaos continues after 40Kg panel falls

Focus Live earlier: Panel falls 15 floors from Auckland tower

Residents will have to keep observing water restrictions for another three to five days.

Lake Taupo Mayor interview discussing the wastewater spill entering the Waikato River. Video / Focus Live

Between 70 and 80 per cent of Taupō's wastewater poured into Lake Taupō.

Focus Live Earlier: Gaggle of geese living in Auckland's Western Springs Park face being culled

Focus Live earlier: Taupo residents urged to avoid flushing as wastewater pipe bursts

Focus Live Earlier: Christchurch schools lockdown lifts: police hunt last suspect.