NZ's glaciers have fared slightly better this summer - but the bigger picture remains bad.

Police were called to a report of a stabbing at 10.50pm.

Further charges are likely against Sam Brittenden following his court appearance.

Chinese ski resorts are opening up again, following the Covid-19 outbreak.

Police are investigating an online threat made to Christchurch mosques.

He stole a plane and vanished into thin air, only to come back from the dead years later.

There's a chance of rain sprinkling the country, but not where it's needed the most.

Fox Glacier businesses are worried that tourists believe access to the town is shut.

An investigation found a series of faults in Christchurch City Council's payroll system.

A cyclist has been seriously injured after being run over by a truck.

The tenancy tribunal was shown a piece of carpet that had mushrooms growing on it.

A man has been injured in a workplace accident in Motueka.

A person has died in a house fire in Dunedin overnight.

The church founders, says the virus is "a devil's deed to curb the growth of his church".

A fire and emergency spokesperson says they were called to the fire on Cass St.

A women heard what sounded like ferocious dog snarling in the early hours of Saturday.

Curiosity almost killed the cat, and it took cutting holes into a building to save her.

Police have named a Queenstown woman killed after a vehicle hurtled down a steep bank.

'You are a recidivist violent person,' the judge said.

One, two, three, four the people declare an inter-island war.

'It was a new and novel experience and one he doesn't want to repeat,' his lawyer said.

Southland Charity Hospital now has a home after being given a tavern.

Sophia Crestani's death is having an impact on the way students are partying.

Armed police and officers with police dogs were seen outside the property.

Police have freed a person from a car after it collided with a bus.

Five black-billed gull fledglings stoned to death on the Waimakariri River.

A foreign investor's buy-up of sensitive land breached the Overseas Investment Act.

Crews are still at the scene of a scrub fire in Christchurch.

Civil defence authorities have sandbags ready in parts of the Mataura River catchment.

Auckland's set to extend its record-breaking dry spell today.