Showers are likely for much of the North Island today, according to the MetService.

Find out what's happening in your region as Cyclone Cook sweeps in.

Enjoy the sun while you can, rain is back from Wednesday

Govt will not introduce a formal policy to protect medical cannabis users.

Police have recovered a vehicle they believe belonged to missing teen Leo Lipp-Neighbours.

A vehicle that could solve a seven-year-old mystery has been pulled from Nelson Harbour.

Leo Lipp-Neighbours went missing in 2010. Police may be close to solving 7 year mystery.

Heavy rain is expected across NZ this week in the wake of Cyclone Debbie

A warm, sunny week is expected across the North Island before the weather takes a turn for the worse on Friday.

An Air New Zealand flight was forced to turn around after striking a bird this morning.

Police executed the search warrants in an effort to reduce social harm from drugs.

They helped raise more than $2 million to help secure a part of the Abel Tasman for the public.

The brother of a woman saved from Harwoods Hole has opened up on the tense wait.

Families who have lost loved ones in crashes involving foreign drivers horrified at two more deaths.

American tourist faces serious driving charges after two killed on a South Island highway.

One of two people who died in yesterday's three-vehicle crash near Nelson was a local.

Multiple passengers have reportedly been critically hurt, with two dead, in a three-vehicle crash.

Burglars help thems-elves in Lord of the Rings jeweller break-in.

An online car dealer who took deposits but failed to supply cars to at least 16 people has now paid refunds to at least three complainants.

DoC staff were tonight monitoring a pod of about 200 pilot whales milling around in the sea off Golden Bay.

Hundreds of volunteers last night kept a vigil over 120 whales restranded on Farewell Spit near Golden Bay.

Twenty pilot whales have beached themselves again and will be euthanised, DoC said, as volunteers are warned to be careful around decomposing whales.

All 100 of the surviving beached whales at Farewell Spit have been successfully refloated as volunteers scrambled to stop another pod swimming into shore.

Emotional scenes as whale rescue volunteers sang to and even named many of the pilot whales stranded - and those refloated - on Farewell Spit.

Volunteers desperately trying to save 100 surviving whales that have beached on Farewell Spit are being warned about the risk of sharks in the water.

Police say they have concerns for an elderly Nelson man who was due to arrive in Westport today, but has not been seen. Leslie Martin

Tomorrow marks a year since the death of the Nelson mum and police are still trying to figure out what happened to her.

A whale rescue expert is critical Department of Conservation crews didn't act sooner in last night's devastating whale stranding.

A new, Opposition-led inquiry into the state of aged care in New Zealand kicks off tomorrow.