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 ...

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. Surrey have signed New Zealand white-ball captain Mitchell Santner to play in ...

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

The Green Party wants clarity from the PM on the government's plans for privatisation, accusing him of "publicly entertaining ...

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

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.

The Northland town was hit by high winds in the early hours of Sunday, damaging 50 houses and knocking down power poles, ...

Around three this morning, a line of severe thunderstorms and winds tore through the town and surrounding areas. Fire and Emergency New Zealand says it received multiple reports of roofs collapsing, ...