Alarming administration errors led to confusion over which of an elderly woman's legs needed surgery and her being sent home, dying days later.

A man was shot in the face and 24 arrests made after a violent gang brawl in the Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa this morning.

A giant squid which washed up on a Wellington beach this morning will be left to the elements.

Police have found a missing seven-year-old Wellington girl but are yet to find her father. Lau Leota had fled with his daughter following an altercation at her home on Tuesday night.

The departure of Capital Coast District Health Board chief executive Ken Whelan because of pressure to cut costs will not be the last, Labour MP Ruth Dyson says.

A woman fired from her job for comments she posted on Facebook will be awarded money from her former employer.

Police investigating the murder of a Wellington woman are looking for a man who may have spent time with the victim.

A neighbour heard death threats coming from a Wellington council flat where a woman was brutally murdered.

Police say Allison McPhee, 42, whose body was found in a Wellington flat on Wednesday, died a violent death.

The Labour leadership is seething about an anonymous note suggesting the party is in strife with the unions.

Police are treating as suspicious the discovery of a woman's body at a block of Wellington flats yesterday afternoon.