Cruise ship Regatta docks at North Port, Marsden Point Whangarei. Video / The Northern Advocate

Investigators on the scene of a blaze at a South Auckland car wreckers. Te Pāti Māori arrive at Waitangi treaty grounds. PM Chris Luxon's ties to tobacco companies under the microscope.

Firefighters battle massive Ōtāhuhu car wreckers fire. Video / Hayden Woodward

A 19-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly ramming a police car in the Auckland CBD today. Video / Supplied

An Auckland Transport recycling truck has dumped it's load after it caught fire on Richardson Rd in Mt Roskill.

The opposition parties were welcomed today onto the Treaty grounds at Waitangi. Watch excerpts of speeches by James Shaw and Chris Hipkins. Video / NZ Herald

A person has been critically injured in an incident in downtown Auckland this morning.

Chloe Swarbrick stands in hopes to replace James Shaw as Green party co-leader. Greta Thunberg has her charges dropped and children all around country are feeling the cost of living as families go without.

A helicopter with a monsoon bucket helps fight a wetland vegetation fire on farmland in Kaipara. Video / Supplied

PM Christopher Luxon, National MP Tama Potaka, and Act leader David Seymour spoke to the media after arriving in Northland for the Iwi Chairs Forum. Video / David Fisher

Newstalk ZB's D'Arcy Waldegrave and the NZ Herald's Bonnie Jansen get together to preview the weekend's sport. Video / NZ Herald

Leor, a colossal 4-meter puppet, takes center stage in the interactive show titled String Symphony at Aotea Square. Video / Jason Oxenham

CCTV footage of the moment a high-performance XR ute was torched beside a Flaxmere family's home early on Friday morning. CCTV / Supplied

Over 200 riders from 27 countries has been confirmed for the first-ever UCI BMX Racing World Cup in New Zealand, to be staged at the new Te Papa o Te Kauri BMX facility at Whakarewarewa on 10 and 11 February.

Two close friends who support opposing cricket sides.

Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick has announced she will run for the Green Party’s leadership. Video / NZ Herald

Rachel Crystal from What's Cooking lunch bar was robbed at 3am yesterday.

Pure Mama founder and chief executive Lara Henderson says she has had "amazing" sales after American socialite Kourtney Kardashian featured two of Henderson's products on her website.

Georgina Campbell explains Wellington's severe regional water shortage. Video / Mark Mitchell

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles joined Judith Collins as she trialed a bright pink Mars rover. Video / Thomas Coughlan

Question time from Parliament.

Dr Rodger Tiedemann, Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Auckland and consultant haematologist, speaks about the lack of funding of Pharmac.   Video / Jason Oxenham

A family desperately fundraises to cover the costs of unfunded medications required to prolong the life of Simon Clark, who is battling multiple myeloma. Video / Jason Oxenham

Canopy Tours GM Paul Button - the company is the first company in Rotorua and the first zipline business in the Southern Hemisphere to get a B Corp certification.

Government ministers are asked to disclose tobacco industry links, what you can no longer put in your recycling bins and Air New Zealand's impact on our economy in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZHerald

Protest at Lake Rotokakahi

Police Minister Mark Mitchell admitted that he got it wrong yesterday, when he stated that the government's goal of 500 new cops would be achieved over three years rather than two. Video / Mark Mitchell

Countdown Hauraki Corner has done a U-turn on an initial refusal to provide CCTV footage of a woman's car getting damaged while parked at the supermarket on November 20, 2023. Video / Supplied

Three machete-wielding offenders rob South Auckland bakery. Video / Supplied