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 ...

Hanson’s win came at the show where sister Emaraina Braddick scored her first Open woolhandling win in 2016, while another sister, Ana Braddick, joined the list of winners in the family when she ...

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 ...

The Green Party wants clarity from the PM on the government's plans for privatisation, accusing him of "publicly entertaining" the privatisation of public services and asset sales after previously ...

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 ...