Lauren Crimp

But another academic says police may struggle to enforce the new rules.

It comes after an officer shot and killed a woman brandishing a hunting knife in Christchurch. Audio

The schedule for planned secondary teacher rolling strikes has been revealed as the minister refuses to budge. Audio

The strike follows what teachers say is an unsatisfactory pay offer from the government.

New Zealander Sarah Shaw and her 6-year-old son thought they were being kidnapped when they were bundled into a white van with no markings at the Canadian border.

Residents at a Wellington complex are taking desperate measures to avoid unbearable heat during summer.

Of nearly 200 health professionals surveyed, 40 percent used AI for patient notes. Audio

Sandy Calkin, 30, died after falling into the harbour near the city's party district in 2021.

The charity is planning to axe a programme that puts volunteers in hospital emergency departments. Audio

Children in the care of the government department are still being checked into motels, and it does not know how or when it will be able to end the practice.

A customer was injured and staff traumatised after a gunman stormed the Kensington Tavern and stole cash.

Icy conditions have caused multiple crashes and suspended some trains in the capital.

St Bernard's College principal said about half a dozen of his students were on the platform, and two saw what happened.

Two townhouses in a block of eight have been deemed unsafe to live in for now after a section of the hillside came down in heavy rain. Audio

Two homeowners have been forced from their houses while engineers assess a slip that slammed into the properties on Sunday.

Wellington City Council has agreed to spend nearly half a million dollars on the "homelessness coordination service".

Michael Tamatea's whānau believe one woman knows more than she is letting on.

Michael Tamatea left work one night, went to the pub and was found dead the next day. What happened in-between? Audio

Minister Tama Potaka says the first he heard of victims being turned away from emergency accommodation was in the House.

They include strangulation, threatening to kill, and making and distributing an intimate recording.

An Air New Zealand flight has been forced to return to Auckland for engineering checks, after it was struck by lightning on Friday evening.

Some residents of Templeton, on the outskirts of Christchurch, can't use their bore water.

The local government bodies have formed a new group with the sole focus of responding to homelessness.

Authorities had got it "fairly right" over a possible threat to homes near a river north of Tūrangi, a resident says.

The Ministry of Education is now poised to take legal action against parents who fail to send their kids to school, David Seymour says. Audio