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A charity raising funds for a new mental health outpatient unit for Canterbury children and teenagers has been given $1 million by the New Zealand Community Trust.

Parliament's new year has begun in the traditional fashion with a very wide debate that is a multi-party pep rally. And it's no short booster. This one takes 13 hours.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Opposition leader Chris Luxon have launched stinging attacks on their opponents in their opening speeches to Parliament this year. Video

A crime scene cleaning business has been posting images of the aftermath of suspected suicides, attempted suicides, assaults and domestic violence. Audio

Despite multiple failures - including untreated sewage polluting a popular swimming beach - the company running Wellington's four wastewater treatment plants is keeping its multi-million dollar…

The government's plan to re-open the border, allowing people to bypass what the prime minister has described as "the anguish of MIQ", is being shot down by the opposition as both too slow and too…

Two Gisborne women with children in their care were almost left without a roof over their head this week after their emergency accommodation provider kicked them out for entertaining guests.

The first wahine Māori ever elected to serve on the Wellington City Council, Jill Day, has decided to not seek re-election in the Takapū Nothern Ward at October's local body election.

Europe needs to diversify its energy supplies, the head of NATO says, as Britain warned it was "highly likely" that Russia, the continent's biggest natural gas supplier, was looking to invade Ukraine.

A blaze in Canterbury this morning caused quenching fluid to enter the stormwater system.

A fire investigator is at the scene working out the cause of a blaze that broke out in a Kaiapoi factory overnight.

Omicron highlights the need for more social housing, so families living in overcrowded conditions can self-isolate, a chief executive working in the sector says.

Aid agencies are at the ready to help disaster-hit Tonga, but say downed communications are slowing the relief response.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed two deaths so far following the volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga on Saturday.

New York authorities are investigating a possible "maintenance issue" with a door that failed to close when devastating fire erupted in a Bronx apartment building yesterday, killing 17 people…

Kazakhstan's former intelligence chief has been arrested on suspicion of treason, as the former Soviet republic cracks down on a wave of unrest and starts to assign blame.

From purges, to tightened freedoms, disappearances and rights abuses, we take a look back at how China has dramatically changed under his reign.

Kazakhstan's authoritarian leader says he has ordered security forces to "fire without warning", amid a violent crackdown on anti-government protests.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is resigning, six weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup leaders he argued could save a transition toward democracy.

About 1000 urban planners will gather in Christchurch next year to discuss some of the country's biggest challenges, including housing affordability and climate change.