Councillors will seek feedback from Aucklanders before voting on a fireworks ban.

There are allegations manufacturers are gaming the tax system to keep people hooked.

Newly released Police intelligence reports have revealed the scale of tobacco robberies.

Monday's Head Hunters operation was one instance of an increasingly significant law.

The new Waiariki MP said it felt like his first day of school.

A man who met the lone protester said he seemed frustrated and 'didn't feel listened to'.

More than $1.3m was spent in Northland last year on emergency housing.

Record high butter prices is putting the pinch on local bakers.

A pensioner is speaking out to educate others after her dog killed a baby swan in Rotorua.

Kiwis in Hurricane Irma's path are hunkering down bracing for the Category 5 storm.

Local lad Jordi Webber is thinking big and won't stop until he's turning down scripts.

Deaths by suicide rose to over 600 last year for the first time in recorded history.

It has now been more than a week since two Rotorua relatives were last seen.

Almost 25 per cent of Hawke's Bay's monitored swimming spots were deemed unsafe.

The Labour leader joked that she was "tempting fate" as she held the child.

Jordan Bond reviews Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós.

A government strategy overhaul might help stem meth use and supply in Tauranga.

Two local principals are left baffled after new charter school is announced.

Only six of Tauranga's 46 suburbs have a median house price of less than $500,000.

A heartwarming brotherly reunion for the ages - 35 years in the making.

Chapman College - soon to be a Bethlehem College wing - will likely be on a new site.

Covert drug testing at Kiwi music festivals finds revellers are taking dodgy narcotics.

More than 9000 Northlanders have had their home or workplace broken into since 2014.

Almost 400 people were assaulted in central Tauranga in the last few years.

The numbers of reported assaults continue to climb, many more go unreported.

Water and pollution are shaping up to be a key issue come election time.

Helen Klisser During was in Times Square when a driver drove through pedestrians.

Tauranga and the Western Bay is the world's ninth most unaffordable area in the world.

Fed-up shopkeepers caution they'll try to take back control if robberies continue.

Nathan Rakuraku started smoking cannabis at 7, meth at 15. Now clean, he shares his story.

The past three years have seen more Northlanders sent to prison than any others.

The proportion of Māori imprisoned in 2016 was higher than any other year on record.

Firefighting operations could continue at Port Hills for up to a month.

St John's Church has been inundated with offers of buildings to host its Sunday services and ministries. Reverend Ed Masters said

Bay councils' staff costs rose almost $3.5 million last year. Hastings District, Napier City, Hawke's Bay Regional and Central Hawke's

Kiwi gamblers have poured $843 million into pokies - the "crack cocaine" of gambling in New Zealand - in the last year.

Harvesting Whanganui's wall of wood in the next 20 years will provide hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in income - but the

More than 3700 police staff have asked for work-related trauma counselling in the last five years - with a senior association figure

Convictions in Rotorua for cannabis possession have fallen more than 66 per cent in the last six years - adding fuel to nationwide

Two years ago, 8-year-old Emily Woller was diagnosed with cancer. Today, Emily is bravely fighting the disease, and along with chemotherapy

Parents were told a person with a gun was loose at their child's school - only to find out it was a false alarm sent by the school's external comms provider.

Net migration in New Zealand is the highest it has been since at least 1978 - and possibly ever.

A person is in hospital after breaking into a home and getting stabbed in the process.