It's time to check your wallet, turn out your drawers and dig through that glove box.

The prize was made up of $6m from Powerball first division and $500,000 from Lotto first division.

Double fatality in National Park a family tragedy.

A cold change sweeping up the South Island this afternoon has seen temperatures drop by double digits in 10 minutes.

It'll be a beautiful day in most parts of the North Island today.

Manuka honey industry, enhancing IT and entrepreneurship, and promoting cultural tourism all identified.

Tyson Matenga was evading police when he crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle.

We've all seen plastic bags being blown down the street. But do you know where they end up?

A body of a person killed in a car crash in a remote patch of Te Urewera is still in the car.

A rugby player accused of assaulting a woman with intent to rape her has pleaded guilty.

COMMENT: The mayors of New Zealand's three most impoverished districts have asked the Prime Minister to establish "demarcation zones".

Labour says it would marry Gisborne's need for jobs with the country's need for housing.

New Zealand is now experiencing the worst of the fire season, a top officer says, with a dangerous combination of high temperatures and low relative humidity creating tinder-dry conditions across eastern hot-spots.

Qatar Airways has a reputation for lavish parties to launch new routes and says its gala dinner in Auckland will be no exception.

It's a perfect summer's day in Waitangi and Auckland, but messy weather with gales and rain are expected in some parts of the country.

The sun has come out to play and is here to stay, with a scorcher of a long weekend across the country.

We can expect normal temperatures in the coming months but less rain.

The weather's going to be (finally) glorious for most of the country.

An Australian lawyer is searching for Kiwi victims of serial paedophile Catholic priest Father Denis McAlinden. Alyce Johnson of

Tevita Lokotui, who plays the tuba in the school's brass band, is recovering after having his leg amputated at the knee as a result of the Christmas Eve bus crash.

Dozens of teachers were disciplined or struck off last year for sexual, inappropriate or aggressive behaviour towards students.

Family and friends will gather today to say goodbye to a father and son who died together in a truck crash.

Find out what place will be 31C on Auckland Anniversary weekend and read our list of the top five places to bask in the sun.

An 8-year-old boy who died alongside his father in a truck crash in the Hawke's Bay wanted to drive trucks just like his dad, family say.

Members of a shearing gang were injured this morning when the van they were in left the road and smashed into a tree.

A man has been flown to hospital after being hit by a large fish bin onboard a fishing trawler north-east of Gisborne.

Archbishop Brown Turei, one of the leaders of the Anglican Church in New Zealand and Polynesia, will be remembered at a funeral tomorrow.

A Gisborne teenager has died after he was critically injured after he fell from the roof of a moving car.

An elderly Gisborne woman's handbag was stolen while she took holy communion at a city church on Sunday and other church parishioners have been warned about it.

Firefighters are returning to the scene of a major scrub fire that gutted a house, destroyed a shed and forced the evacuation of baches and homes in the Hawke's Bay.