Rocket Lab's Atea-1 rocket reached over 100km into the air and spent up to 20 minutes in the sky.

Some conservation land in the Coromandel could be used for mining, Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee says.

Renowned as a musician, cartoonist and reviewer, Chris Knox suffered a stroke earlier in the year.

A statue of Sir Keith Park - the New Zealander who led the RAF during the Battle of Britain - has been unveiled in London.

Residents near an iconic beach are unsettled by development plans but the land's owners are promising not to ruin the untouched paradise.

Halloween trick-or-treaters found talkback radio pioneer Tim Bickerstaff dead in his home in Whitianga at the weekend.

A formal health warning has been issued at Thames and Coromandel beaches after a dog poisoning confirmed that sea slug toxins had spread.

Ronald Bruce Vautier has lost an appeal against his two-year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls.

The right to camp out by the beach and sleep to the sound of the surf is being banned in one of the North Island's top holiday spots.