Schools closing completely Friday include Auckland's Western Springs College, Northcote College, and Browns Bay School. Napier Girls' High School and Hurunui College, near Christchurch. Plenty were ...

Fewer than 40 New Zealand fairy terns survive - making it six times rarer than the kākāpō, which is often treated as the ...

Dozens of schools are giving their students and some teachers a four-day weekend, choosing not come back to class on Friday after the Waitangi Day holiday. That is despite Associate Education Minister ...

A motorist has captured the moment a delivery truck careened over the centre line, smashing into the side of a truck, causing ...

Recovery crews in the Northland town of Mangawhai have cleared 960kg of waste after a devastating storm last month. Two people were taken to hospital in a serious condition, after the storm that tore ...

After 60 years of serving the country, the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s C-130H Hercules fleet have been retired from service ...

Fixtures for the one-day international tri-series hosted by Pakistan and also involving New Zealand and South Africa. The celebrations come amid tensions as the government enacts policies some see ...

The native spinifex and pingao dune plants have been grown from seeds gathered by hundreds of people over that time — and ...

A localised tornado that struck Mangawhai Village in New Zealand on Jan. 26 caused widespread property damage, triggering a multi-agency emergency response. The event has raised questions about ...

A woman says her partner was seconds away from being killed when the limbs of a tree harpooned the rear of their motorhome ...

Explainer: The wind speed of the Mangawhai tornado is similar to one that's occurred before - RNZ has been looking at what we ...

The storm in Mangawhai was so powerful that power poles were snapped in half and roofs were ripped off, leaving the seaside community littered with debris.