Free-ticketed entry at this year’s Auckland Lantern Festival
The four-day event will transition to a free-ticketed format for the first time, offering free public transport to and from the festival.
Watch live: David Seymour delivers State of the Nation speech in Auckand
The ACT leader has used his first major speech of the year says the country was at a tipping point between "two invisible tribes", in his first major speech of the day.
Mitre 10 to take over central Wellington Warehouse site
Mitre 10 is set to take over the location of a central Wellington Warehouse outlet when the red shed is vacated this year.
Government says it's hit emergency housing target 5 years early
The government says its emergency housing target has been reached five years early. But the whereabouts of 20 percent of those leaving emergency housing is still unknown. Last year, as one of its ...
Celebrations begin for Lunar New Year
Celebrations for the Lunar New Year are about to kick off with a bang in Auckland as Asian communities welcome the Year of ...
Rātana an opportunity for Christopher Luxon to front up to Māori - iwi leader
Friday's Rātana celebrations will be a chance for the prime minister to front up to Māori, a Māori leader says. Followers of the Rātana Church, called mōrehu, gather at the small settlement south of ...
Talking tinnitus with senior clinical audiologist Duncan Hann
Duncan Hann used to actually suffer from tinnitus - a persistent ringing in the ears - while playing in bands, which eventually led to a master's thesis in tinnitus.
Getaway vehicle found after Tokyo Bay restaurant robbery, police say
A vehicle believed to have been used in an armed robbery at a Japanese Restaurant has been found, police say. Officers were called to Tokyo Bay in Takapuna on Sunday night to reports of armed ...
Stalled skyscraper developer wanted no media at Auckland Council update meeting
The developer of what was set to be New Zealand's tallest residential building did not want the media around during a meeting updating Auckland Council on the status of the stalled luxury skyscraper.
Prime ministers' heads severed and stolen from bronze statues in Ballarat Botanical Gardens
Police are searching for the vandals who removed the heads from two statues of Australian prime ministers and damaged 18 others in Ballarat early on Thursday morning.
Mansion-building firm charged worker thousands for job and sacked him a week later
An Auckland construction company used a Singapore agency to charge a migrant thousands of dollars in fees to get a job, and sacked him after a week. Migrants and their families are being threatened ...
'I love the battle': Kosta Barbarouses on goal scoring
Wellington Phoenix striker Kosta Barbarouses is a goal scorer and he has the swagger to go with it. The club has been relying heavily on him this season as his seven goals have helped them to ...