Wording of letters about deportation liability for children to be revised by next week.

Manager insists the sign refers to helping women with the groceries, not violence.

Not a single sound was recorded during the 28-minute crime scene video.

The cost of the wildfires in Nelson could yet exceed the Port Hills fires in 2017.

North Island Bee farmer Dorje Strang's company 3Bee Honey is bracing for further impacts upon the business as the threat of fire lingers in the area.

The preparations of 2019's Auckland's Chinese Lantern Festival are underway.

Earlier: SkyCity convention centre had Grenfell Tower-like cladding: $25m to remove

Earlier: Today's morning update from the Nelson fire

Family shocked to find out 2-year-old was in NZ illegally and could be deported.

Civil Defence gives latest on Nelson fires.

Kate Baron talks tax with Liam Dann.

John Cocks was farewelled in Tairua yesterday.

A family displaced by the Tasman bush fire is camping out looking over their flock of smoke-affected sheep sheltering at an emergency animal refuge centre.

Malcolm Rewa is on trial for a third time, accused of murdering Susan Burdett in 1992.

Earlier: Officials give update on Tasman fire situation

Nats, Labour have criss-crossed several times in other recent polls, writes Audrey Young.

One of New Zealand's largest forest fires appears to have been well fought.

High-profile prisoner Arthur Taylor speaks to the Herald's Anna Leask after his release from prison.

"I saw her legs over the side of the bed, naked from the waist down."

WATCH: The restaurant called the incident 'a mistake'.

Earlier: Is it racist to refer to 'Asians' on a restaurant receipt?

Earlier: Wakefield residents who were forced to flee their homes to escape the fire risk could be allowed to return tonight, officials say.

Earlier: More than 20 years since he last faced trial over the killing, Malcolm Rewa walked into an Auckland courtroom today with his shoulders hunched and a ring hanging from his neck. For the third time the rapist stands before a jury accused of murdering Susan Burdett.

Earlier: Emergency teams are planning for a tricky day ahead as they hope to contain the Tasman blaze with stronger winds forecast today.

When Jack Wise was caught in a train crash near Parnell, he quickly fired off a "p-mail" to his parents.

Detective Inspector Lew Warner of the Bay of Plenty speaks to The New Zealand Herald about the murder of David Kuka who was killed in 2018 in Tauranga.

Prohibited activities include those where metal meets stone and that can generate sparks.

Terry Coleman, evacuated from his Whitby Rd home in Wakefield on Friday, has gone to a paddock on the Waimea Plain where the grass is dead but the beer is cold.Video / Mark Mitchell

It's really going off in a temporary supermarket of donated goods for fire evacuees at the Nelson Suburbs football club at Sachin Fields, Stoke, Nelson.