It’s now NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi. The road-building agency is believed to be the first government department to dump its te reo Māori name first in favour of its English name. The coalition ...
A Christchurch man who groomed and abused a teenage boy after he was given accommodation during lockdown has been jailed for more than two years. In July 2021, Callum Joshua Jones, 31, developed a ...
Two people have been found guilty of murdering Christchurch mother Angela Blackmoore 28 years ago. Former debt collector David Hawken, 50, and ex-stripper Rebecca Wright-Meldrum, 51, were on trial in ...
On Friday, Adam Michael Rapson pleaded guilty to several charges including manslaughter, two charges of dangerous driving causing injury, failing to stop for police, being an unaccompanied learner ...
Kāpiti Coast District Council has begun an investigation after established pōhutukawa trees on public land were cut down in Paraparaumu Beach. The trees were on the southern roadside corner of George ...
Around the main lodge building and its 22 suites and cottages, there are low-flying kerurū and tūī, sometimes kiwi at night, and nearby there’s a kākā rookery where this magnificent native parrot is ...
New Zealand’s most popular public golf course will undergo a $1.1m makeover to reduce the hazard of balls being hit onto a neighbouring motorway. Chamberlain Park Golf Course in the heart of central ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is out of the capital today, assessing damage to Wairoa from recent rainfall in a region still suffering from the after-effects of Cyclone Gabrielle. It’s a departure ...
Returning to the West Coast town of Karamea after dropping two hunters in the bush, 71-year-old pilot Tony Ibbotson heard a severe bang from the rear of his helicopter. What followed was a ...
A person was taken to hospital after they found a mystery powder on the North Shore. Police investigations are continuing after a member of the public found an “unidentified powder” at an address in ...
A person has died and another was taken to hospital after a boat capsized off Auckland’s Waiheke Island last night. A rescue operation was mounted around 7.20pm, with the Westpac rescue helicopter and ...