'It's just a bloody pigeon,' shooter's mother says. 'I don't care what you call it.'

The man also had two knives but was fought off by a disabled person with their walker.

A woman on a cocktail of drugs was potentially 'a lethal weapon', a judge says.

Parents appear evenly split over whether to send their children back to school.

'It's one of those occupations people consider doing when they can't make ends meet.'

'Jailhouse lawyer' Arthur Taylor says lack of support a national problem.

A rescue helicopter will fly the man to hospital.

There were nearly 400,000 foreign nationals here temporarily soon after lockdown.

Family torn apart after son charged with brutal murder of his Kiwi mum and her husband.

It's going to be wet and windy.

Work and Income killer Russell Tully is refusing food behind bars.

No it wasn't an asteroid. If it was, Queenstown probably wouldn't exist anymore.

He needed help with the gear shift and even asked the victim what kind of fuel it took.

Window of opportunity to head for home in Takapuna ran out quickly on Lou Farrand.

Dunedin Airport will be unable to return to normal in the foreseeable future.

Just 14 active cases in region compared with 101 a few weeks ago.

Officer punched unconscious from behind and then punched a further 20 times.

Victoria, Auckland and Otago universities are charging students fees to hold their rooms.

How a community banded together to give a visiting couple a very different dream wedding.

Queenstown is facing a new wave of rental challenges.

High-security Dunedin laboratory the only one in the country already growing the virus.

Some have jumped to take voluntary cuts, others have called them 'morally indefensible'.

Body discovered at Otanomomo at about 2.30pm today.

Forty-eight fur seals have made themselves at home.

US efforts to find anti-viral Covid 19 drugs slammed as disjointed and chaotic.

"Six football fields" of floor space has disappeared, National's health spokesperson says.

When Barry Kloogh's firms were placed into liquidation, he had 2000 active clients.

Pop-up site to help determine the level of community transmission.

The golden weather is coming to an wet and chilly end for some.