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MetService Severe Weather Warning: June 26-28

MetService Severe Weather Warning: June 26-28. Video / MetService

Man in custody after five-hour armed police stand-off in Christchurch

Police were called to an address in Wilsons Rd.

Watch: ‘Heartbroken’ MPs pay tribute to Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp

Kemp died aged 50 following a battle with kidney disease.

From highway to the bush: Spiked car crashes, police dogs track down pair inside

They'd avoided two sets of police road spikes but couldn’t avoid a third.

The Country: Todd McClay on carbon farming

Todd McClay, Wayne Langford, Hamish Marr, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, and Chris Russell.

'Bunch of thugs': Vandals wreak havoc ruining Auckland rugby fields

Vandalism is costing Auckland ratepayers hundreds of thousands yearly.

Officer accused of fatally pushing drunk, aggressive man cleared of any wrongdoing

The man fell and hit his head while police were trying to move him on.

One in 10 have disease that Te Pāti Māori MP battled - 400 are on wait list for transplant

Among Māori and Pasifika, the rate with the illness may be as high as one in five.

Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp dies aged 50

The Tāmaki Makaurau electorate MP and former Manurewa Marae chief executive died following kidney disease. Video / NZ Herald

Second person charged after deaf and blind man's death in alleged hit-and-run

The man has been charged with being an accessory after the fact to manslaughter.

NZ shearers prepare for Scotland's toughest sheep

Toa Henderson and Jack Fagan will tackle blackface sheep at the Lochearnhead Shears.

Crash on Tauranga Eastern Link leaves one critically injured

Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash around 9.50am.

NZ Herald Live: Peeni Henare and Willie Jackson speak to media following passing of Takutai Kemp

Peeni Henare and Willie Jackson speak to media following passing of Takutai Kemp

Te Pāti Māori ‘devastated’ after MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp dies

The Tāmaki Makaurau MP was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2024.

'Designed to magnify fear': Church leaders condemn message behind Tamaki's rally

Brian Tamaki led a march down Queen St, claiming non-Christian religions are out of control.

An update on Hawkes Bay news: A hoarder housefire and a fallen logging machine

Hawkes Bay Today Editor Chris Hyde gives an update on a massive hoarder house fire and why a logging machine was lobbed off a cliff in Hastings.

Baggage handlers arrested as police bust Auckland Airport drug ring

Authorities arrested 18 people, including airport staff, and seized $24m worth of meth.

The Public Trust is chasing SolarZero for nearly a billion dollars

Business with 2degrees with BusinessDesk's Garth Bray