Kate Green

The Gisborne District Council said communities around Te Araroa, Onepoto, and Wharekahika have been the worst hit, with the intense deluge that began on Wednesday evening Audio

"Solar weather" doesn't pose a threat to human health - but it does to our technology.

The body of Benjamin Timmins is set to undergo a post-mortem today.

Benjamin Timmins amounted to more than his criminal history, Rach O'Grady says.

A woman and two young men are in a critical condition and a man is dead after the shooting in Waitārere Beach.

MyIndici was planning to add multi-factor authentication to its app.

With the phrase "cost of living" first popping up in newspapers more than a century ago, we take a dive into the history of tough times. Audio

At its peak there were 45 firefighters and forestry workers on the ground fighting the blaze.

Dame Helen Danesh-Meyer has been made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to ophthalmology.

Three new dames and four knights have been announced in this year's New Year Honours - and the capital is home to three of them.

Off the back of two devastating wildfires in Tongariro National Park, Kate Green takes a look back at some of the big ones, and a look forward at future risk. Video

The companies have 240 sites between them, and a combined buying power of one billion litres of fuel a year.

It's the third strike by Workers First Union members in the past fortnight following four rounds of negotiations.

Nitrates have to be removed before the treated water can be discharged into the environment.

A new research project is exploring the use of sound to protect native birds from both feral and domestic cats.

The disgraced former deputy police commissioner was sentenced to home detention after pleading guilty to the possession of child sexual exploitation and bestiality material.

The disgraced former top cop was sentenced to nine months' home detention and does not need to register on the child sex offending registry. Audio

Rebecca Peters was the leader of the grassroots movement in Australia to change gun laws following the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre.

McSkimming is due to be sentenced at Wellington District Court on Wednesday.

A new emergency preparedness guide developed by, and for, disabled people, has been unveiled.

Two parents who care full-time for their disabled children are, in fact, employees of the government - and should receive the same benefits and protections. Supreme Court rules.

国家电网表示，在空间活动异常期间会执行防范性预案。此次太阳风暴没有对社会用电造成影响。

Stargazers took to social media to post their photographs from places like Dunedin, Waihola Lake, Roxburgh, Cromwell and Mount Cook.

Dr Tamsin Edwards is in New Zealand to give a lecture on the topic of uncertainty around sea-level rise in Antarctica.

In the depths of the Beehive's bunker, officials have been running a new kind of exercise. Audio