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Contact Energy's half-year profit has plunged because of lower power generation, high retail purchase costs and transmission constraints between the North and South Islands.

The families of those killed in a canyoning tragedy in the central North Island last year say wrong decisions were made when their children were taken on the fatal trip.

Biscuit maker Griffins is shutting its Lower Hutt factory on Wednesday after 70 years in production.

A ruptured gas pipe that disrupted traffic and confined residents to their homes on Auckland's North Shore has been fixed.

A drunk driver who avoided being sent to prison because of a panic disorder has now been jailed for two years after an appeal by the Solicitor-General. The woman was earlier sentenced to home…

A jury has again been unable to convict a man accused of murdering another man during a gang brawl in South Auckland. The Crown says it will pursue a third trial.

The garment and textile manufacturer Lane Walker Rudkin says it has to close its Christchurch textiles division to stay competitive.

A stretch of State Highway 1, north of Auckland, will be closed on Tuesday night to allow the retrieval of a transporter truck that slid down a bank.

A business group says an increasing number of food and drink outlets are not opening on Labour Day.

Thursday's papers: two people are dead after a suspected outbreak of norovirus in an Auckland rest home; health camps face a funding crisis; shortage of houses expected by the second half of next…

Maori boarding schools continue to be relevant, according to Professor Taiarahia Black from Massey University.

About 1700 electricity consumers in the lower and central North Island were without power on Tuesday night after strong winds battered the region.

Residents of evacuated homes in Auckland's Kawakawa Bay have been given the all-clear to move back in.

The Auckland City Council is giving $180,000 to the New Zealand Opera and the Auckland Philharmonia to keep them afloat.

Manukau City Council is organising free ferry and bus services for the residents of Kawakawa Bay where the main access road is closed by a large slip on the verge of collapse.

The AFFCO meat company has confirmed the closure of its casings plant at Wiri in Auckland, with the loss of 20 permanent jobs and a similar number of seasonal positions.

Manukau City Council says people do not realise the extreme danger posed by a large slip that is on the verge of collapse at Kawakawa Bay.

A clean-up operation is continuing in parts of the South Island which have been affected by flooding. Heavy rain and flooding is beginning to ease, but not before leaving a trail of evacuations…

Residents near the intersection of Mt Albert Road and Alberton Avenue in Auckland have been evacuated due to a rupture in a natural gas main. It's not yet known how long the situation will last.

Listed residential property investor CDL Investments has recorded a 75% fall in its half-year profit, which it blames on what it calls a dramatic change in the market for residential sections and…

Researchers say the safety procedures at their Crown-owned laboratory are world standard, despite a report finding a scientist was infected by meningococcal B while working there.

There were further slips and road closures as storm conditions returned to New Zealand on Saturday, following a week of severe weather.

Work to strengthen the Auckland Harbour Bridge was due to start on Sunday.

The main trunk railway line in the South Island is still closed by flooding and slips. SH1 is also closed in several places.

The latest storm to hit New Zealand has left at least one person dead and more destruction in its wake. Civil Defence teams are on alert in Canterbury and eastern Otago as the storm moves through the…