A fatal crash closed SH3 north of Whanganui for three hours today. A pedestrian died after being hit by a truck. Police said the pedestrian was located in a critical condition and CPR was ...

Big swells cancelled some ferry services across Cook Strait today. Sea conditions were expected to deteriorate as a southerly front caused waves, sparking cancellations during the worst of the ...

One person died following a crash between a car and a motorbike on Colyton Road at Bunnythorpe this afternoon. Emergency services were called to the intersection of Colyton Road and Watershed Road ...

A motorcyclist has died in a crash near Feilding. Police were advised just before 8pm last night that a motorcycle had crashed on Kawakawa Road. The motorcyclist was found dead on the road.

The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly under-qualified many of our councillors are. An amendment proposed by Councillor Calvert to try and keep the rates increase below 10% vs.

A helicopter was working to dampen a smouldering vegetation fire in Makara this morning. Fire and Emergency received a call about the blaze from a vessel in Cook Strait at about 8pm. While crews ...

Hamilton mayor Paula Southgate will leave politics in October, saying it’s time to make room for younger, emerging leaders. Southgate was elected mayor in 2019 and was the Waikato’s only ...

A motorcyclist critically injured in a crash in Palmerston North on 6 January has died in hospital. The crash, involving a car and a motorcycle, occurred at the intersection of Victoria Avenue and ...

The Art of Banksy – the exhibition at Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre – has brought Banksy’s era-defining ...

Report from RNZ by Pokere Paewai, Māori issues reporter One of the great champions of te ao Māori Dame Tariana Turia has been ...

A’ freak’ stingray attack on a keen local fisherman at a southern Hawke’s Bay beach has left the man hailing the lifesaving ...

Aotearoa New Zealand’s 10th-warmest year on record. The 2024 nationwide average temperature calculated from NIWA’s seven ...