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Forestry regulations should be tightened to prevent incidents such as logs clogging a river, an ex-councillor says.

It's been decades in the making and today Transmission Gully has finally opened. RNZ looks at the long road to get here.

Leader of Samoa's Human Rights Protection party, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, has been found guilty of contempt of court.

One of the men killed in the Far North fishing boat tragedy was worried about the weather forecast before he went on the trip, his devastated father says.

Reefton residents voiced their dismay amidst shouts of "bulls**t" at a protest last night at the sudden closure of the town's hospital aged-care wing, after some residents suddenly moved out of the…

It's been a bumpy opening for the new Bluff oyster season.

Opinion - If you want fans to attend your game and you want to engage viewers, then you have to make the action an adjunct to the sideshow, Hamish Bidwell.

The tech sector says it has what it takes to woo international investors, who have come courting.

The two-way quarantine-free travel bubble lasted just three months in 2021. Since then, the island nation has vaccinated close to 100 percent of its eligible population, paving the way for today's…

The Raukūmara Pae Maunga restoration project is underway with the first lot of workers being sent into the ancestral forest to cull deer and goats.

Here's 12 up-and-coming bits of legislation you may have missed thanks to the hustle and bustle of Covid-19 last year.

In today's sports news - England announce game against All Blacks, Covid-19's impact on European sport grows, and Hamilton's gets knighted.

The media focus at Parliament was on the impact of leadership, but the legislation told a different story – about the impact of the public. That we can each change the law.

Eli Epiha who admitted murdering police officer Matthew Hunt has been sentenced to one of the longest minimum non-parole periods imposed in New Zealand's legal history.

Louise Upston’s been working on a victims rights member’s bill for more than a decade. After a long gestation and a troubled passage this week it suddenly raced to the finish line.

Opponents of the bipartisan bill aimed at enabling housing blitzed the media over the past few weeks. Many of the reports failed to include relevant context and balancing opinion.

Comment: The final whistle has blown on the Southern Hemisphere season, but perhaps the most significant victory was when World Rugby opened up their eligibility rules, Jamie Wall writes.

Householders face losing over a billion dollars worth of sunlight and views under radical housing intensification law changes underway.

In today's sports news - Copy That wins at Addington, Warriors book homecoming and Danny Lee regains playing rights.

Soaring rates bills on the West Coast are forcing some homeowners on low incomes to consider selling up.