$7.6 million will pay for new automatic gates and hazard lights.

Auckland Regional Council has announced it is closing down the Mt Wellington kart/bike track prematurely, two years before the new track is proposed to be finished.

Interview with Roger Twose, a director of Willis Bond which developed Wynyard Central, where the last of 4 penthouses is being marketed.

New Zealand trusts business Perpetual Guardian has signed off on the four-day week, turning an experiment into company policy.

Chemical found in plastic detected in tests on Hutt City aquifer.

Traces of Bisphenol-A, a chemical commonly used in plastic packaging, has been discovered in Wellington's drinking water.

Holy cow! Stock truck and trailer flips on Auckland's Northern Motorway.

Following the 2004 tsunami which killed 250,000, an early warning system was developed.

John Holyoake, chief executive of the Tamaki Redevelopment Company talks about the changing face of housing and community in Glen Innes.

More than 420 people have died, with officials still to reach other areas of Sulawesi.

A heroic toddler born with brain and heart defects has had risky surgery to change the shape of her head and allow her brain to grow. But that was not the end her health problem. / Video by Greg Bowker

Rescuers are rushing to the Indonesian region of Sulawesi.

Steve Braunias asked his friend Shayne Carter to teach him how to drive.

On the right track: Outgoing KiwiRail boss Peter Reidy talks about the challenges for trains and his new role at Fletcher building

The explanation isn't overly scientific either, NIWA says.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has given her first statement to the UN General Assembly.

Filmmaker Gabo Arora describes how this child bride story affected him deeply.

PM speaks at UN, expected to give response to Trump, talk climate change.

Occupant told landlady he would pay his rent only if she "takes off her pants".

A new study in the US has found that limiting screen time to less 2 hours a day is associated with improved cognition.

Kyle Mulinder explains what it felt like to be slapped by a seal with an octopus.

The bizarre moment a kayaker got slapped by a seal with an octopus in Kaikōura was captured on video and shared on social media.

We were world leaders on social security in 1938. We can be so again, argues Mike O'Brien

COMMENT: A blanket one-speed-fits-all may not aways be appropriate for the Auckland CBD.

COMMENT: When Jacinda Ardern sacked Meka Whaitiri a week ago, it was on a trust-me basis.

Foreign students may now prefer Australia, which has nine universities in the top 200.

Air New Zealand is pushing up some prices on a number domestic routes by up to 8 per cent and $10 each way across the Tasman.

Some higher level fares are on the way up at Air New Zealand.