Traffic is being diverted after a crash on State Highway 2. A single-vehicle crash occured on State Highway 2 near Pongakawa School Road at 6.55am, says a... Read More

The weather has been mostly fine across New Zealand, but a burst of rain is being forecast on Saturday, before a large area of high pressure brings another run... Read More

Four Katikati College students are standing beneath a road sign at a rural crossroads south of town. It's balmy, autumnal; the clouds of war that once hovered... Read More

Who was Jessie? Acquaintance? Confidante? Love interest? No-one knows - nearly eighty years after a WW2 soldier and the mononymous ‘Jessie' exchanged... Read More

The Ohakea-based Royal New Zealand Air Force aerobatics display team the Black Falcons, will carry out its final flight of the season with a flypast at Taupō... Read More

Betty Hall was once told by a teacher she would never get a job after finishing school. After 35 years as an animal services officer, she has proved them... Read More

New Zealand Police have joined international authorities to bust open a significant cybercrime operation, which targeted thousands of people worldwide. Under... Read More

One Tauranga hospitality worker reportedly got a black eye after a customer threw a large ceramic mug at her face. This is just among some of the assaults... Read More

An Air New Zealand passenger suffered a badly broken leg just 30 minutes into a seven-hour international flight after the plane hit turbulence when he was returning... Read More

The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four... Read More

Hato Hone St John ambulance officers are attending a crash on Pyes Pa Road. A single-vehicle collision occurred on Pyes Pa Road at 5.35pm. The road is... Read More

An infant whale has been found dead on a Bay of Plenty beach. Department of Conservation operations manager for Whakatāne, David Beattie, says staff and... Read More