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MetService has lifted a red severe thunderstorm warning for Northland, but a storm watch is still in place over the wider Northland and Auckland regions.

Half the country's court buildings are crumbling, some are not safe or have mould and the cost of fixing them has blown out past a billion dollars, forcing a flagship project to be crimped to fit.

Birthcare is closing its Huntly facility next month, claiming it cannot get enough staff, and more mothers are choosing to give birth at hospitals.

Watch: A former student who was among hundreds of boys sexually abused at Dilworth private boarding school in Auckland described the school as having been "like in a paedophile farm".

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Waka Kotahi has paid road builders millions more on top of the billion-dollar cost of the Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway.

Geoff Williams has led the council for 10 years.

Farmers are bracing for hotter, drier and windier months ahead as the return to El Niño heralds possible drought conditions.

An increased workforce and renegotiated funding model would be needed for Labour's pledge on free dental care to come into effect, the NZ Dental Association president says.

Some universities are reluctant to set deadlines for ensuring Māori and Pacific students are as successful as other groups of students.

The saga of Villa Maria wines involves valuable land, an iconic brand, legal action and millions of dollars in dispute. 

The deal reached earlier this month would give "absolute certainty" the airport could keep operating for at least the next 35 years, Ngāi Takoto leader Rangitane Marsden says.

Poverty, insecure housing, rising costs and weak parenting were also common themes in reports covering covering a period last year when truancy reached 14 percent.

A ski field operator has been convicted after admitting endangering the lives of workers and passengers five years on from a bus crash that killed an 11-year-old schoolgirl on Mt Ruapehu.

The former chief executive stole about $44,000 while the charity's former operations manager stole $216,000.

One of NZ's greatest taonga, the Hauraki Gulf, is in trouble due in part to overfishing, excessive sediment and the impact of climate change.

Jayden Mamfredos-Nair was last seen on 21 April in the company of two people with links to the Head Hunters gang. A missing person search has turned into a homicide investigation.

The cold snap has caused problems for drivers on icy South Island roads, flight cancellations and MetService says the cold front is now moving over the North Island. Audio

A year on from the storm that destroyed a section of SH1 the original 26 slips have grown to 38, making completing the repair on time "more and more challenging".