The Taxpayers' Union has praised the Wellington City Council for turning down former Mayor Celia Wade-Brown's leaving gift request.

Doctors' strike at 18 DHBs to disrupt care for thousands of patients

Pulse-oximetry is a quick, painless and safe test for oxygen levels in the blood

Police are confident they have caught Lois Tolley's killers on camera.

Gable Tostee has taken to social media to dismiss as 'nonsensical' suggestions of him being recharged over Warriena Wright's balcony death.

Tens of thousands of tonnes of steel and concrete from Wellington's earthquake demolition sites will be recycled.

Quake-damaged buildings to be torn down and the materials reused.

Bangladesh prospered and will start day two today at 154 for three.

Researchers call for ban on ban on alcohol sponsorship of sport

Services will be held in Wellington and Auckland today to pay tribute to former Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd boss Nick Calavrias.

A "spectacular" multi-million dollar homestead on the edge of Lake Wakatipu and the foothills of the Remarkables has been donated to the University of Otago.

Patient battles through two reviews and three court cases to prove that his treatment injury happened at the time of surgery.

The November 14 earthquake caused significant damage to the Wellington Port, especially to the container area.

The site where a nine-storey office block once stood on Wellington's Molesworth St is hardly recognisable.

Wellington's Zealandia has just reached another milestone in its efforts to bring wildlife back to the city.

There's never a dull day for rescue helicopters.

A burst water main in Upper Hutt which caused a "pretty spectacular" fountain of water and hindered the train service has been fixed. A

Traffic is free flowing for holiday-goers on the motorway heading back into Auckland - and we'll keep you posted throughout the evening.

A brave Wellington shopkeeper hit a gun-wielding robber over the head with a broom handle after shots were fired as the offender fled with cash.

Nikki Kaye has opened up about the aftermath of being diagnosed with breast cancer.

A woman is selling her historic yacht on Trade Me - for a $1 reserve

The elderly Wellington grandmother missing after going for a run yesterday has been found.

A bank manager was in a geocaching area when his car collided with a milk tanker.

Nine cars trapped inside the condemned Reading Cinema carpark building in Wellington will never be recovered.

The demolition of Wellington's earthquake-damaged Reading Cinema carpark building has begun.

Big swells predicted to surge up the eastern side of New Zealand from Kaikoura to north of Mahia Peninsula

Crashes mixed with the usual holiday traffic mean people travelling back to Wellington will be stuck in delays of at least 45 minutes.

Wellington Hospital took a leaf out the NZ Police's book during New Years' Eve, busting out the breathalysers for people coming through the emergency department.

EXCLUSIVE: Family members recall how Leotisia Malakai - the third victim of a horrific bus crash near Gisborne - slipped into a coma and never woke up.