Two crashes blocked State Highway 2 on River Road in Cloustoun Park tonight. NZTA reported the first crash at 6pm at the Totara Park Road intersection. It told drivers to expect delays.

In a serious crash in central Johnsonville this afternoon, a car hit a pedestrian. The crash happened shortly before 1:10pm on Moorefield Road, outside the Johnsonville library. It is believed ...

A large fire on the Central Plateau has triggered evacuations of trampers and caused the closure of a nearby highway. About 400 hectares of the Tongariro National Park was estimated to be on fire, ...

Lindsay Shelton I visited Tākina for the first time this week. It’s a huge and beautiful building. But it was almost empty.

A quiet trailblazer, a beloved kōhanga reo nanny and the translators behind the first-ever bilingual Olympic sporting glossary were among those recognised at Ngā Tohu Reo Māori 2025, the annual ...

News from NZ Police Hutt Valley Police successfully disrupted a planned anti-social road user gathering in Lower Hutt last ...

A burst water pipe at 32 Kerkwall Drive in Naenae. affected a large area in Naenae at 8am this morning as the supply from the reservoir was impacted. A new valve was being installed above the ...

Simon and Angela Bendall, owners of The Jetty, with front of house manager Cass Symons; (right photo) Whittaker’s CEO James ...

One of the biggest names in New Zealand film-making has died. Lee Tamahori made his feature film directorial debut in 1994 with the ground-breaking Once Were Warriors. Born in Tawa, he started ...

Ross Calman (Non-fiction) and Dinah Hawken (Poetry) News from Creative NZ Three outstanding New Zealand writers will tonight ...

Smith Mayor Little and the new Wellington City Council are off to a good start on one issue – the fencing of the waterfront.

Air New Zealand and BETA Technologies have today officially launched the airline’s Next Generation Aircraft technical ...