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The team behind the Sky Tower's fireworks have promised a show that is bigger and better than ever before.

The Ministry for Primary Industries is warning visitors to Taranaki this summer they could face hefty fines if they collect kaimoana - except crayfish - along the New Plymouth to Ōpunakē coastline.

Airports around the country are buzzing, nearly 20 times busier than they were this time last year.

The highways are starting to fill up as holidaymakers hit the road, and crashes have slowed the flow of traffic.

A new online tool showing likely holiday traffic jams has been released - and among the first predictions is SH1 north of Auckland on Friday afternoon.

The government has banned collection of kaimoana from 70 kilometres of the Taranaki coast, giving legal backing to a rāhui that hapū placed on the area in January.

Beaches have been closed in holiday hotspots Whangamatā and Mt Maunganui due to "dangerous conditions" as pre-Christmas bad weather lashes the upper North Island.

The cost of rural rail transport must drop, Ruapehu mayor Weston Kirton says, as Taumarunui reinstated as a stop on the main trunk line.

Increasing New Zealand's energy security by building up onshore fuel supply would result in the "inevitable" outcome of storage costs being passed on to customers, the National Party says. Audio

Backpacker bookings are looking healthy but the industry is worried it is on the back foot following multiple closures and ongoing staffing shortages.

If you're flying today you might have plenty of time to read this story when you're standing in an airport security line for way longer than you should.

Quarantine at the border could be restored within four weeks as a 'minimum viable product' if the need arose, according to a new readiness plan for MIQ.

Police say search and rescue operations have resumed for the person missing after a boating tragedy on Manukau Harbour.

Auckland Council's cultural and economic development agency Tātaki Auckland Unlimited says it is short of nearly $20 million to attract visitors to the city.

Police say one person is still missing after a boat carrying five people capsized in Auckland's Manukau Harbour on Sunday evening.

More than two years after the sudden death of her husband at Palmerston North Hospital, a Manawatū woman is still waiting for answers about what happened.

The weather is again turning wet and windy in some parts of the country with heavy rain already hitting parts of the South Island. Audio

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown says Auckland Transport needs to completely change its approach to better serve its communities.

Immigration Minister Michael Wood has admitted "pain points" in the visa processing system as more than 35,000 visitors wait for visas.

Aucklanders will have no train services over Labour Weekend to allow KiwiRail unrestricted access to railway lines.

An MBIE report on one of the dozens of data centres being set up in New Zealand says it will create a number of well-paid ongoing jobs but its impact on the region's transition will be "limited".

New details have emerged about teenager Ariki Rigby's killing, with her heartbroken sister saying she believes she was beaten to death before the car she was in was torched.