Jessie Chiang

More than 30 New Zealanders are going to fight wildfires ravaging California in the United States.

Forest and Bird is closing seven North Island reserves thought to be free of kauri dieback disease to try to stop it getting into the parks. Audio

Animal activists endangered chickens when filming injured and dead birds at a farm in Helensville, Tegel says.

More than 100 people have turned out in Auckland to a free-speech rally calling for two controversial Canadian speakers to be allowed to address a meeting in the city.

Hundreds of the country's most volatile and complex prisoners will be in a new home at Auckland's Paremoremo Prison, by October.

The former tenant of an Auckland house where a young woman was found dead at the weekend moved out just days before the body's discovery.

A South Auckland resident says the government's $180,000 KiwiBuild income cap is keeping the poor, poor and the rich, rich.

The number of suicide attempt and threat related calls to police have jumped by more than 50 percent in the past five years.

Health experts have sounded a word of caution over the government's decision to scrap targets set by National.

First Person - The impending arrival of the PM's baby is attracting international media interest - and for RNZ's reporter Jessie Chiang at the hospital, it's the second chapter of #stillwaiting.

Dozens of parents are calling for long pants to be part of the uniform at an Auckland primary school after being told they are too expensive.

With just days to go until the prime minister's due date, mothers at an Auckland playcentre have advice for the mother-to-be.

A couple killed in a fire along with their eight-year-old son had taken the batteries out of their fire alarms because they stopped working when their flat was too cold.

A hui run by Tegel Foods has failed to convince affected locals to support its plans to build the country's largest chicken farm in Northland.

An immigration lawyer has likened some of the commission-based practices in the international student sector to a Pyramid scheme.

Airbnb says its hosts are happy to pay the new tax proposed by Auckland Council - but the hosts themselves say it could force some of them out of the sector.

Up to three students are likely to be suspended from a South Auckland high school after a bullying incident left a teenager in hospital, the school's principal says. Video

The government's been told that preschoolers can't wait four years for funding that is urgently needed now.

Hamilton may soon be adding more than 1600 homes in three new special housing areas.

Some overseas students who paid thousands of dollars to a tertiary institute that closed down have finally received full refunds.

It's been billed as New Zealand's largest ever civil construction project - but South Aucklanders say a government transport plan doesn't go far enough.

The Ministry of Social Development is insisting it made a one-off mistake in stopping a woman's benefit before they had investigated a tip she was cheating the system.

A teenage girl whose mother pimped her out for sex as much as five times a day says all she ever wanted was for her mother to love her.

Aucklanders could be waiting weeks to have broken roofs fixed and fallen trees cleared as the storm clean up continues.

A small tornado has caused damage to a coastal suburb in New Plymouth, while tens of thousands of Aucklanders face another cold night without power.