Colourful clouds explode over West Auckland as a large crowd gathers to partake in the Krishna Holi festival of colours at the Hare Krishna temple in Kumeū. Video / NZHerald

Coalition parties see post-Waitangi boost. Non-MP Green Party member to challenge Swarbrick for leadership. Seventeen killed in Rafah strikes in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his military to prepare to evacuate more than one million civillians from a war-torn city in Gaza, house valuations are expected to drop, scrub fires continue as further restrictions come into place and Chinese new year begins.

NZ4X4S owner Ali Faqeeri has been left to front the bill over a smashed windshield. Video / Corey Fleming

Fenz Assistant Area Commander Mike Manning spoke to the media about the ongoing effort to fully extinguish the Green Gorilla fire in Onehunga. Video / Jason Oxenham

Christopher Luxon on Act’sTreaty Principles Bill. Video / Mark Mitchell

A look back at all the action we caught on video from Waitangi Day 2024.

MPs, officials and honoured guests spoke at the Waitangi Day dawn service at Te Whare Rūnanga Video / Whakaata Māori / Newstalk ZB

NZ First MP Shane Jones speaks to the media at Waitangi.

Investigators on the scene of a blaze at a South Auckland car wreckers. Te Pāti Māori arrive at Waitangi treaty grounds. PM Chris Luxon's ties to tobacco companies under the microscope.

Chloe Swarbrick stands in hopes to replace James Shaw as Green party co-leader. Greta Thunberg has her charges dropped and children all around country are feeling the cost of living as families go without.

The Cauty family have laid a complaint with the Ministry of Education over their son Spencer’s treatment. Video / NZ Herald

Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick has announced she will run for the Green Party’s leadership. Video / NZ Herald

Chlöe Swarbrick makes an announcement in Wellington. Video / NZ Herald

Auckland University calls in the lawyers over Ashley Bloomfield scam, Australian officials to brief the Government on Aukus developments and why Airbnb could be forced to cut its services in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / DW / NZHerald

Georgina Campbell explains Wellington's severe regional water shortage. Video / Mark Mitchell

Police Minister Mark Mitchell admitted that he got it wrong yesterday, when he stated that the government's goal of 500 new cops would be achieved over three years rather than two. Video / Mark Mitchell

Winston Peters and Judith Collins jet to Australia, new documentary a wake-up call for Piha and a bright prediction for Auckland’s CBD in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / Getty Images / Parliament TV / NZHerald

The Green Party are due to hold a press conference at 11am today. Video / NZ Herald

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealand would pause funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency until Foreign Minister Winston Peters was satisfied it was appropriate to continue contributing to the aid operation after alleged links between 12 of its staffers and Hamas. Video /Mark Mitchell

MPs are back with plenty on the to-do list, Wellington's water woes and ANZ’s latest scam warning for customers in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZHerald

A fire in a block of shops in Auckland’s Manurewa is being treated as suspicious. Video / Hayden Woodward

Emergency services responded to a sudden death at 11.23 last night involving an electric scooter rider on Ian McKinnon Drive in Eden Terrace. Video / Hayden Woodward

People gathered in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, and protested the Government’s decision to deploy New Zealand personnel to join US-led attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Video / Dean Purcell

Firefighters continue to battle blazes in Canterbury. Six injured in two crashes in the North Island overnight. Further rulings possible in ICJ Israel-Gaza genocide case.

One year on from the Anniversary floods in Auckland, people are still recovering. A water safety reminder has been issued once again as another man is found dead in Wellington harbour and the government scraps Labours bill to lower the voting age to 16.

Inner City Wellington spokeswoman Geraldine Murphy on apartment owners facing increasingly unaffordable insurance premiums. Video / Mark Mitchell

A group of armed offenders fled police almost 100km to Northland after a reported shooting in the Auckland suburb of Massey overnight. Video / Hayden Woodward

Wellington City Council has decided to replace the city's parking meters, despite paying $1.5 million to install a new sensor network in 2016. Video / Mark Mitchell

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown lashes out over pedestrian crossing costs, inflation falls in line with expectations and when Kiwis can expect clarity on Cathedral Cove’s re-opening in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / Maori TV / NZHerald