The country is losing new graduates and existing workers as statistics show the highest migration rate to Australia since 2012, a Massey University professor says.
Residents in the top of the South Island are under a second state of emergency in three weeks and steeling themselves for another potentially devastating storm.
Pensioners camped out in a Waikato carpark are facing an uncertain future after years of living there, and the owner says most can't afford to go anywhere else.
Rotorua police are planning a crackdown on illegal dirt bike riders, with a senior officer warning it may only a matter of time before someone is killed in the city.
A senior lawyer at a big law firm who grabbed a junior colleague’s penis at a Christmas party and made other lewd comments about people he worked with has been suspended for 15 months.
A high court jury has seen footage of murder-accused Julia DeLuney's video interview with police the day after her mother's death, where her story is first put under the microscope.