St John Ambulance launch an internal investigation into why it took staff 22 minutes to reach a dying man in Taupo.

Rain eased in Gisborne overnight and surrounding roads reopened after flooding and slips caused evacuations.

A New Zealand luxury lodge has been recognised for its consistent high standards by a century-old English high society magazine.

Summer has ground to a spectacular halt in a number of regions over the past week - is it going to get even worse?

Dave Cade is pushing hard to keep didymo - or rock snot - out of Taupo waterways.

Bizarre things go through your head when you are ascending to 4500 metres and about to jump out of a small plane over Lake Taupo with an American strapped to your back.

Telecom XT customers needing to contact emergency services are being told to use landlines instead of their cellphones while the network remains down.

Olympic rowing champion and golden twin Caroline Evers-Swindell formed a new partnership yesterday - this one for life.

Three people had a lucky escape from the Waikato River after hydro dam gates opened a torrent of water onto them.