Almost 2000 protesters plan to occupy Auckland's Aotea Square for the next six weeks.

A decade after it opened, the rail trail has become - to use an overworked phrase - a New Zealand tourist icon.

Rugby fans in Waitaki were unable to watch the All Blacks game on their analogue sets after a transmitter failure.

As Clayton Weatherston reaches the end of the road for appeals against his murder conviction, his legal-aid bill has mounted. The Otago University tutor, who murdered 22-year-old student Sophie Elliott in 2008....

Clayton Weatherston has had his application to appeal his murder conviction....

A violent hail and thunder storm has caused two car crashes and left the ground "white like snow" in Wellington. Police have said the storm after 1:30pm had been the catalyst for two crashes...

Rugby tourist Mitch Freeley visits two NZ rugby strongholds: quake-hit Christchurch and vibrant Dunedin.

His tight pants may have given him away, but it was a pair of pyjama-clad female...

On November 28, 1979 an Air New Zealand DC-10 on a sightseeing trip to Antarctica crashed into Mt Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. In his book Daughters of Erebus, Paul Holmes reveals how the news unfolded for the family of pilot Jim Collins.

Forty years in a blokey, sometimes unkind profession hasn't left a dent in the genial exterior of rugby's 'old bear'