Eight families who say they need help to look after their disabled children have been left waiting almost a year for a decision by the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

The MetService says Aucklanders can expect more than 50mm of rain in the next six hours, or 100mm in the next 24 hours.

Some conservation land in the Coromandel could be used for mining, Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee says.

Renowned as a musician, cartoonist and reviewer, Chris Knox suffered a stroke earlier in the year.

A statue of Sir Keith Park - the New Zealander who led the RAF during the Battle of Britain - has been unveiled in London.

Residents near an iconic beach are unsettled by development plans but the land's owners are promising not to ruin the untouched paradise.

Halloween trick-or-treaters found talkback radio pioneer Tim Bickerstaff dead in his home in Whitianga at the weekend.

A formal health warning has been issued at Thames and Coromandel beaches after a dog poisoning confirmed that sea slug toxins had spread.

Ronald Bruce Vautier has lost an appeal against his two-year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls.