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Local Focus: The Mauao Ranger: The man with the 'coolest job'

From managing Mauao's walking tracks to its ecology, meet the man with 'the coolest job'.

Killed in her own home: Family's tribute to 'kind, wonderful' carer

'Our family has been inundated with support and we are grateful for this.'

'Traumatised' arson victim: 'Leave us alone'

Mihaka warned the victim to get the children out of the house before he set fire to it.

'Aladdin's cave' of drugs, guns and stolen property found

Guns, drugs and stolen property aplenty found after a police search in Whangārei.

Two months to go: Fears for Lambton Quay when department store exits

David Jones will close on June 12 but there's still no word on what will take its place.

I was raped, then ruined by the systems that were supposed to help me

A survivor asks why society still seems unable to support victims of sexual assault.

High-income families less likely to get children jabbed

10 per cent of parents declined to have their children vaccinated.

'We know he's a liar': Top cop on coming face-to-face with Grace Millane's killer

Grace Millane was murdered on the weekend of her 22nd birthday in December 2018.

GP's biopsy without consent 'very concerning': HDC

Informed consent is at the heart of the Code of Rights for New Zealand patients.

Rugby fan dies in freak accident during boys' trip - why his widow has gone viral

We will never know what happened to Matt Caldwell, but there are clues to how he died.

Police concerned for safety of man, 53, missing from New Lynn

Jeff Allan was last seen today in New Lynn.

Omicron outbreak: 11 deaths, 8531 new cases, 635 hospitalisations

Of those in hospital, most are in the Auckland metro area.

'Occupy Christchurch': Protest camp springs up in Latimer Square

A protest camp has sprung up in Christchurch's Latimer Square.

Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa: Flypast for 85 years of Royal NZ Airforce

Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa is being marked on Saturday with a flypast over the North Island.

'Hold them to account': Bar owner phones 'fake 1-star reviewers' upset by vaccine pass decision

People have 'flooded' the bar with fake one-star reviews, apparently in retaliation.

'We can only do so much': Dunedin students clean partying mess for memorial

More than 100 students tackled some of North Dunedin's most notorious party streets.

'New generation coming into agriculture': Cannabis farm gets $32m grant

The Government has given a cash injection to NZ's largest medicinal cannabis grower.

First interview: Man kept as slave in NZ speaks out

He was lured to NZ by promises of money and a better life, but was kept as a slave.