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A New Zealand Labour MP is still hopeful a Tongan Christian school in south Auckland can avoid long-term closure.

Supporters, staff and students of a Māori boarding school threatened with closure protested outside Parliament yesterday. Audio

Genesis Energy has more than doubled its annual net profit to $104.8 million, despite losing customers.

Lauren Boyle is to front a campaign to save the nation's school swimming pools, with at least 130 pools estimated to be at risk of closure.

A private investigator says the police owe it to the family of murdered Auckland woman Susan Burdett to investigate claims of new evidence.

Electricity generator and retailer Meridian Energy says New Zealand might have to develop another power station as early as 2019.

The site of Auckland's Otahuhu gas-fired power station should be used for affordable housing when the plant shuts down, neighbours say.

Contact Energy's profit has fallen by nearly half, due in part to intense competition for customers.

Continued volcanic ash near Bali's Depensar Airport has delayed Air New Zealand flights to and from Auckland.

The Labour Party has accused the Treasury of being "nuts" for suggesting the country's rail network should be closed because it costs too much. Audio

Genesis Energy has confirmed the gas-fired power station planned in Rodney, north of Auckland, has been scuttled.

The East Coast community of Ruatōria is rallying to stop Westpac from closing its branch - the only bank still open in the town.

About 200 friends and family members have attended the blessing of the repaired children's section at the Papakura Cemetery in south Auckland.

Power is back on for more than 3000 households throughout Otago from after it was cut during wild weather last night. Audio

A passenger was trapped in a car and police were forced to close a section of Auckland's Queen Street after a crash this afternoon.

The head of the national museum has told shocked supporters of its publishing arm he will consider opening for submissions a proposal to close it down.

The South Island is receiving the worst of the unseasonably cold snap this evening with sleety showers, snow and hail showers in Canterbury, Otago and Southland.

A South Island mussel farmer is warning of a national shortage of mussels in two years time, because higher sea temperatures have affected the spat harvest. Audio