A person had to be cut from their wrecked car after a collision north of Wellington this morning.

Cross your fingers and toes that a tentative forecast for a warm Labour Weekend comes true.

Warm air flowing from across the Ditch will push temperatures up over the whole country this weekend.

A boutique lodge on the fringe of Northland's Waipoua Forest has been named New Zealand's best hospitality business.

Northland MP Winston Peters has cited a Whangarei business as just one example of immigrants ignoring New Zealand's employment laws

A dead cattle or dairy beast may have been lying metres upstream from a popular Ngunguru swimming hole for two weeks before the stench

About 100 seasonal workers at Moerewa's Affco freezing works who had terms of their employment contract altered will seek tens of

The annual race is encouraging high school students to take on engineering as a subject. Made with funding from NZ on Air.

IN THE GROOVE: Thousands of revellers packed in front of a sound stage on Mount Main Beach to welcome in the New Year. PHOTO/FILE

Heartfelt Facebook messages, donations and gifts from around the country have been flooding in for the elderly victim of a daylight robbery.

Tauranga job listings have seen a huge spike in the past three months and businesses are struggling to fill vacancies - with one employer

Students from an Auckland high school have been captured on video fighting - as teachers stand nearby.

Neighbour says Clare Bremner had "big concerns" about her son Ross two weeks before she was killed.

Source: YouTube: 100% Pure New Zealand. Master carver Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell shares the story behind New Zealand's remarkable Mine Bay Māori Rock Carvings.

As an elderly woman was giving $2 to a young man, he grabbed her wallet, leaving her hand bruised as he ran off.

It will be a wet start to the week for the top of the North Island and eastern areas today, however, the rest of the country is expected to stay pretty dry.

Police have found a Lower Hutt man who went missing earlier today.

He started as an outside chance, but Neil Holdom's strong campaign won him the New Plymouth mayoralty by 500 votes. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Full preliminary results for 2016 local body elections for the North Island.

Police believe one of the three dead at a property south of Kawhia is wanted man Ross Bremner. The other two were an elderly couple not related to him.

A neighbour said the pair that were found dead "were a bubbly family. They were a sporting family, good at tennis."

Wet weather has forced home gardeners to delay planting of summer fruit and vegetables.

A thunderstorm warning remains in place as violent electrical storms pounded Auckland overnight leaving many without power for hours.

A decision by the contactor to accelerate the project means the $13 million makeover of the Makatote rail viaduct will be finished

A decision by the Employment Court that Affco NZ unlawfully locked out seasonal meatworkers has been upheld by the Court of Appeal. The

The unsafe use of vehicles on 90 Mile Beach, particularly at Ahipara, has long been a source of aggravation for many residents, especially

Whether or not the prime minister will be present at next year's annual pre-Waitangi Day powhiri is still up in the air after no decision

A Whangarei supermarket is giving out free coffee to shoppers who bring reusable bags for their groceries.

A growing number of ducks, swans and geese are succumbing to a dining anomaly usually confined to humans seeking an easy snack - junk food.

A Northland man is taking claims that he has consistently been overcharged at Pak 'n Save to the Commerce Commission.