Infants, particularly those under 12 weeks of age, struggle to regulate their temperature.

The Wellington suburb of Kelburn reached 30.3C at around 4pm this afternoon.

Wholesale change is needed for the insurance industry to clean up its act, the head of the Financial Markets Authority says.

Construction workers, gardeners, and chefs are among those battling the heat as temperatures near 30C across the country.

The New Zealand Herald spoke to Georgina Griffiths from MetService about New Zealand's potential heatwave.

The strike action today and tomorrow follows failed mediation talks last week.

Yes you can still train outside, even in this heat, but here's what you need to know.

A Wellington City councillor is writing to the NZ Transport Agency, in a bid to rid the blasting of horns in the Mt Victoria tunnel.

They say the unprovoked attack has made them feel unsafe in New Zealand.

A young Colombian woman who had plans to travel the world has been left traumatised after a brutal alleged attack on her and her sister at an Auckland mall. / Video by Michael Craig

Tamihere launches campaign saying a top priority would be opening Council's books.

It's a case of "make beer not war" as an old Air Force hanger gets a big-money makeover.

Anti-P protesters have marched down streets in Kawerau where police carried out raids against the Mongrel Mob in 2018.

The Little Creatures Brewery comes to Hobsonville Point.

Almost half of schools oppose plans to shift control of schools to regional 'hubs'.

Focus: Simon Wilson interviews John Tamihere after he announced he is running for mayor in January 2019.

Boy who lived all his life in Grammar zoned forced to cut hair to attend Auckland Grammar.

13-year-old James Hunt relented, getting his haircut the evening before starting Auckland Grammar.

Aiden Moe, 6, was mistakenly left inside a locked van in a garage at a holiday programme.

The New Zealand Herald spoke to the mother of a child who was locked in an Auckland Council van.

Friends of slain Flat Bush mother Xi Wang speak out about the "amazing" woman.

A fire broke out at Auckland Normal Intermediate School in Mt Eden this afternoon.

Neighbours evacuated as fire breaks out at Auckland school. / Shot by Michael Craig

Jenny Li's 5-year-old chihuahua, Lucky, was stolen from Eden Heights Superette and has now been returned outside her shop.

Western Springs resident Vaughan Clutterbuck and Lisa Prager, spokesperson of Occupy Garnet Road protest group, talks about council planning to chop down Western Springs pine trees.

The government is happy with the payload for a cutting-edge US military agency.

A masked man who forced His way into a Kaitaia home and raped a woman as her children slept nearby in 2003 has been brought to justice 15 years later. / Video by Brett Phibbs

EDITORIAL: Old pines should be removed from parks without destroying native regrowth.

No one knew the answers when Whitianga students started investigating their local estuary.