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Composing songs and teaching music have been a natural fit for the founding member of The Verlaines who has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Audio

The Queen's Birthday Honours list for 2021 has been announced today, and it includes prominent artist Grahame Sydney, the former Dunedin mayor Dave Cull, and former long-serving MP Ruth Dyson.

Samoa's constitutional crisis deepened on Monday morning with the party that commands the majority of seats locked out of parliament, but still insisting it can form a government today.

Some people queued for over an hour in the mid-Canterbury town of Leeston to have their water tested, while others had to be turned away.

After three years of pressure over warrants of fitness, vehicle inspectors can expect a softer approach, the Motor Trade Association says.

The post-Covid rich list is different to NBR's previous yearly efforts. In 2021, ranking wealthy New Zealanders also means measuring what they give back. 

Tests on truck handbrakes have found high rates of failure, and concluded the way the brakes are routinely checked is ineffective.

Authorities are struggling with what to do about a second lot of truck brakes involved in serious accidents causing death.

In today's sports news - Olympic qualification for hammer thrower, VAR under EPL spotlight and Verstappen shows early velocity.

After the Markle Debacle and Andrew's murky associations, you couldn't blame Aotearoa for saying goodbye to the Crown. But what would a queen-free country look like constitutionally? 

Shot-put star Dame Valerie Adams is back to her vintage best after registering her longest throw for five years.

Casino operator SkyCity Entertainment has posted a slump in profit as Covid-19 hammered its earnings.

The text messages were flying around the Black Caps' group chat on Wednesday morning.

Dot Gorrie reckons she's not addicted to attending council meetings. But she's been to about 60 in the past three decades, is now seeing Kaipara District Council's sixth mayor in action and has…

A South Island town surrounded by flammable vegetation is asking its residents to check their fire plans carefully after the devastating blaze that tore through Lake Ōhau last year.

A toxic cocktail of speed and too many vehicles is increasingly threatening lives - and the environment - on New Zealand's longest driveable beach.

The police watchdog has cleared officers of any wrongdoing after a Kurow man was fatally shot after his concerned son called police.

The Bird Rescue Charitable Trust has been getting reports of dead penguins on beaches in Northland and north Auckland, and it could be connected to the current La Nina weather pattern.

Casino and gaming company SkyCity is losing three senior executives.