Boeing at the weekend revealed more details of the concept plane which would fly at up to 5800km/h, 1.6km a second and two and a half times the speed of the Concorde.

The former cricket all-rounder had been undergoing treatment for bowel cancer.

NZ's greatest bowler to undergo surgery after secondary cancer is discovered in his liver.

Video shows a giant pou, or pole, using fallen kauri from the Waitākere Ranges.

Fu Wah had intended to bring in up to 200 tradies to finish the $200 million Park Hyatt hotel.

Animation Research Ltd came up with the idea and shares its two-year-old concept of a 40-metre-high pou at Wynyard Point.

200,000 Kiwi kids could be battling their way through school struggling to see.

Fu Wah gets approval from Immigration NZ to bring in 138 not 200 tradies from China.

It's been a year since Justine Damond phone police for assistance and was fatally shot.

Claire Nelson tells her story after being trapped for three days under the hot sun and badly injured in a US desert.

"I realised: I can't move, I'm on my own, no one really knows that I'm here."

Carlie Reynolds started her own rehab centre after getting clean.

At 8.30am breakfast is served in the Queen's own private dining room.

Hauraki Breakfast's Matt Heath and Jeremy Wells compare famous New Zealanders to popular pie flavours.

A countdown of the best albums that come out in the first half of 2018.

A small bottle was found in poisoning victim Charlie Rowley's house.

Remuera's space-defying Tardis home for sale.

Auckland Prison opened today, months late.

An Auckland family-run detox centre is helping addicts find the path to recovery.

A countdown of the best podcasts to come out in the first half of 2018.

A new "sensory garden" gives prisoners a secure space where they can sit quietly, reflect or talk but most of all enjoy living plants, a waterfall on a rock feature and a green mound of artificial grass.

Home values in the town of 6800 people jumped more than 25 per cent over past year.

A countdown of the best tv shows that come out in the first half of 2018.

We take a look back at the best movies of 2018 so far.

Healthcare workers across the country are striking today.

Elation to anguish as 300 English fans watch England get knocked out of the World cup by Croatia.

A Russian rocket's booster failed shortly after liftoff in Kazakhstan - forcing a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut to make a harrowing emergency landing. / AP / NASA

System failures could result in patients walking out of high-risk facilities.

A leaked report reveals ageing security systems in urgent need of upgrading at Wellington Regional Hospital and Kenepuru Hospital.

The stakes here are enormous.