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Flood-hit mid-Canterbury residents were spared evacuations overnight after the swollen Halswell River did not burst its banks as feared.

A staggering one in five pensioners is still working - a figure fuelled by finance company collapses, divorce and the high cost of living, experts say.

A New Zealand man accused of murdering his wife in Canada does not have a lawyer just a day before a new trial date is due to be set.

The family of a soldier who drowned during a training exercise hope the Defence Force's expected guilty plea to a health and safety charge would help prevent a repeat of the "myriad" errors that led to his death.

The biggest residential building boost in a decade will not make a big dent in Auckland's housing availability woes, but is a step in the right direction, an economist says.

Two houses perched precariously on the edge of a huge landslip in Wellington may never be safe to live in again, the council says.

A man's ear was torn in half and his face and neck were slashed when he was attacked with a glass at a Coromandel pub early this morning.

Family members will be paid to look after their disabled adult relatives after the Government set aside $23 million for carer payments in this year's Budget.

The mother of an Auckland builder who was electrocuted under his house says her son has been vindicated by a finding against the electricians whose faulty wiring turned the property into a death trap.

Wellingtonians who flout the region's outdoor water use ban are being warned for now - but fines of up to $20,000 could follow for repeat offenders.