Food insecurity has become a widespread issue impacting every region and income bracket in New Zealand, a new report has found. One in three households have experienced some level of food insecurity ...

For the Fairbairn family, holiday means being helicoptered into a remote piece of private land in the Ahimanawa Range, between Taupō and Napier, to live off-grid in the bush for a few days to ...

Kawerau District Council is asking the community to be patient as it works through ongoing problems with the geothermal steam bore that heats water for the pool complex. Potential solutions have been ...

Some flights out of Tauranga have been cancelled because of ash from the Whakaari/White Island volcano. Air New Zealand told the Herald it cancelled 19 services in and out of Tauranga this morning due ...

New Zealand will be squeezed between two weather systems at the end of the week, bringing strong winds and heavy showers to both ends of the country. MetService said the strongest winds were forecast ...

Housing affordability is at the best level in almost a decade, but the effect is not being felt evenly. Cotality has released data that shows the national median house value had fallen to 7.2 times ...

His rapid rise in speed climbing mirrors the sport itself, where athletes race each other up a 15m wall in just seconds. But despite a growing profile, it is missing from the Commonwealth Games, ...

A grandmother says she will stand up in court to support the person accused of owning a dog that killed her 4-year-old grandson. Timothy Tu’uaki Rolleston-Bryan also known as Timoti, was fatally ...

Motorists across Tauranga say they are already feeling the squeeze as petrol prices continue to rise, with many bracing for the possibility of further increases in the days ahead. Petrol prices have ...

Traffic delays are being reported on Te Puke Highway following a two-vehicle crash. Emergency services were called to the crash on the highway, near Collins Lane at 2.30pm. Two pe ...

Air New Zealand is temporarily reducing flights to and from Tauranga in response to surging global jet fuel prices from ongoing Middle East tensions. Air New Zealand chief executive Nikhil Ravishankar ...

Wiremu Curtis, one of two brothers jailed for murdering Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie, lost his prison laundry job after he bullied and threatened a worker, a Parole Board decision ...