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Radio New Zealand's political editor Brent Edwards analyses the Budget. Audio

Finance Minister Bill English says housing can be made more affordable by focusing on land supply, consent processes and productivity in the construction sector. Audio

Police say people evacuated after a meth lab explosion in Mount Maunganui can now return to their homes.

Severe weather in the Bay of Plenty has caused the release of a large amount of plastic beads from a container on the sunken stern of the Rena. Audio

A small tornado has brought down a tree and damaged properties in Raglan in Waikato.

A holiday park in Waihi Beach was evacuated because of rising river levels on Saturday night.

A Maori land trustee in Tauranga is encouraging other trusts in the Bay of Plenty region to seek funding from the Government's social housing unit.

A Bay of Plenty Maori land incorporation is now a step closer to being able to provide affordable housing for its iwi beneficiaries.

A Tauranga man faces charges for drugs and possessing explosives after trying to build a rocket which exploded.

New Zealanders have celebrated Waitangi Day with events throughout the country.

The NZX50 index has fallen 20 points, to close at 3975.

Police officers on a drug raid in Bay of Plenty had to hurriedly get out of an industrial building housing a suspected methamphetamine laboratory on Sunday when it exploded in flames.

Friday's headlines: MP told to 'zip it, sweetie' in Parliament; city council members vote to axe lucrative perks - but not yet; coastal houses will have to be built higher in Dunedin.

Critics say the Labour Party's plan to build 100,000 houses for first-home buyers over 10 years won't solve the housing affordability crisis.

A third man has been arrested in relation to the attempted murder of a man in Tauranga.

Police say two people have been charged and a third is to be arrested in relation to the attempted murder of a man in Tauranga in July.