Queenstown police are trying to locate a Nepalese hiker who has not been seen since yesterday morning.

Twenty years ago $1 could buy you a litre of petrol, half a block of butter or a sizeable bag of mixed lollies from the dairy. These days, you might get three dried apricots or an apple if you're lucky.

"Kill the bill" was the cry from the hīkoi as it stood before Parliament - and that's likely to happen, but it may not be killed as quickly as protesters would like.

Richard Chambers looks set to be announced as NZ's new police commissioner.

A tenant who left a property with $40,000 of damage has been told to pay $4085 to the landlord.

A killer who has spent more than half his life behind bars for murdering a Scottish tourist with a baseball bat when he was 14 seems more concerned with how he’s being treated inside prison than with rehabilitating himself.