Police have started another Super City electoral investigation, this time into allegations of bribery on the North Shore.

Police have widened their probe into a possible Super City voting scam to cover hundreds of people living in Hastings, Tauranga and Hamilton.

The people in the Fashion Week crowd that really matter are the ones who can make or break a label - the buyers.

A 12-year-old boy is thought to have died after playing a game which involves young people choking themselves to get a sudden rush.

Bay of Plenty iwi say land confiscations in the 1860s could scuttle any chance of gaining customary title to tracts of the foreshore.

Travellers between Tauranga and Christchurch, and Invercargill and Wellington, are the big winners in Air New Zealand's latest boost to domestic capacity.

A heavily bleeding shot man managed to escape to the doorstep of a stranger, who tended to him inside his home despite advice not to.