A man who orchestrated the importation of $5.5 million worth of methamphetamine into the country did so under the name of well-known Australian rugby figure Quade Cooper.
A man who met a young woman on a dating app while on a working holiday in NZ is to be deported later this year after he finishes a sentence of home detention for rape.
A person from the rainbow community is calling out ads for a Brian Tamaki church event showing a boy carrying a severed head and bearing the tagline "Time to kill".
Experts say tens of thousands of people could die, hundreds of thousands could be displaced, and the cost of building damage could top $100 billion if a massive earthquake and tsunami from the Hikurangi subduction zone hit NZ.
They may look stunningly beautiful, but any time an Aurora Australis paints our skies, there is the potential for it to knock out our power grids and other high-tech infrastructure.
New Zealand got a rare glimpse into the mechanics of the Sun and its effects on our planet this weekend after a strong solar storm caused massive aurora.