The policy has been subject to 17 months of court battles.

A close friend said Skinner was the last person he expected to be involved in a shooting.

Emirates Team New Zealand fans celebrated a Bermudaful Day this time last year.

This is the first full interview the Greens co-leader has given about her abuse.

The tax will apply in Auckland from Sunday and other regions could follow after 2020.

25-year-old New Zealander, Troy George Skinner, was shot in June 2018 after allegedly trying to break in and kidnap a 14-year-old girl from her home in Virgina. Video / NZ Herald 2018

Opinions were mixed in 2018 when the Auckland regional fuel tax was introduced, now it has been revealed About $156 million hasn't been spent. Video / NZ Herald

Labour stalwarts Phil Goff and Phil Twyford are taking turns to raise prices.

Bank says the true number of non-citizen buyers is in the 11-21 per cent range.

Here's Crystal Collins apologising and singing the NZ anthem again.

Hester Tingey felt strange, that there was an inside joke she hadn't been in on.

Drift Academy, which spans three countries, gives New Zealanders a chance to learn drifting techniques used in the extreme motorsport. / Video by Dean Purcell

Motorists eager to fill up before the petrol price spike will be rushing to the pumps.

One woman took to the speedway, while another stopped off at a drive-thru to get coffee on her way to work as the controversial decades-old ban lifted on Sunday.

Journalist Georgina Campbell explains why she made 'Speaking Secrets' and why it matters.

Snow has closed roads in the south, and heavy rain and thunderstorms are forecast in western areas as a series of wintry fronts move across the country.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was booted from a Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump.

From the streets of Saudi Arabia to a French track, women are taking the wheel.

More than 100 Fraser High School Students have stormed out of class in protest of their principal's comments about truancy at school.

There's no denying that Melania was trying to make a point, but what was it?

COMMENT: Invest in families with babies and you won't have to pay further down the line.

COMMENT: We used to shake the world up, now we are becoming a nation of fuddy duddies.

Thousands of people lined the streets in Queenstown for day three of the annual winter festival's events.

The answer may lie not in a search for world peace, but in a simpler desire.

COMMENT: The public would not respond well to crass exploitation of our royal baby.

COMMENT: Trump has offered his congratulations to Jacinda and Justin ...

The media should be a channel, but it shouldn't be the threshold for speaking out.

The Queenstown Winter Festival's dog barking event.

Two years before four people died on ride, a worker was fired for a similar accident.

Viva Fashion Editor Dan Ahwa weighs in on Melania Trump’s fashion statement during migrant-children crisis.