The New Zealand First leader shares his concerns over drought in Northland, Bill English's effort in Europe and free trade agreements in general.

LA pranksters were in high spirits on New Year's Eve, as the Hollywood sign was altered to read "Hollyweed".

Parishioners shocked, saddened by statue's theft

Authorites have let strip over the vandalism of a local landmark. Unimpressed local maritime staff say the dab hands who repainted

About 30 Norfolk pine trees planted along Whanganui's Seafront Road reserve last week have been dug up and relocated after vandals

A woman who vandalised graves at an Auckland cemetery earlier this year - mostly of children and stillborn babies - has been found

Guards will be posted at Wellington's Botanic Garden after a Friday night party left a WW1 memorial sculpture damaged and litter and broken glass strewn around Remembrance Ridge.

Three schools in Tokoroa have been vandalised overnight, with up to half the windows at some schools being smashed. It is understood

A spate of damage to parks and reserves in the Waimarino has prompted the police to ask the public to jot down licence plate and vehicle

The RSA has condemned the desecration of Anzac war graves in London as a "wanton act of vandalism".

Two years of defence against graffiti vandals is bringing visual relief to communities used to waking up to a blight of spray-painted tags spoiling streets, buildings and parks.

Two trains were forced to abandon stopping at a South Auckland train station after a group of youths kicked the doors and threw stones.

Hoons are smashing barriers, driving cars on to sports fields and leaving a trail of destruction through parks and reserves in South Auckland.

Omaha Beach Golf Club, which boasts John Key among its members, sustained serious damage to the 18th green on Tuesday night.

Widespread damage to election hoardings has been described as "pretty disappointing" but "part of the election campaign process" by the Prime Minister.

'It's horrible, nothing is sacred.' Vandals have knocked over and smashed eleven historic gravestones in inner-city Auckland.

A winery has lost 6000 litres of merlot after vandals opened a tank valve and left it to drain.

Horrified staff at the Island Bay Marine Education Centre in Wellington arrived to find around 80 fish dead or dying after a toxic detergent was deliberately added to the water system.

New Zealand's biggest high school has been hit by $20,000 worth of damage after embarrassing images of giant male genitals were burned into the playing fields.

A handsaw attack on the limb of a pohutukawa tree obstructing a roadside walkway in Piha has ended a long, costly and spirited battle.

Police and fire investigators suspect a blaze that ripped through a historic homestead in East Auckland at the weekend was deliberately lit.