The foreign affairs minister has landed in Solomon Islands for the first leg of his Pacific tour, and an audience with the newly elected Prime Minister.
After ensuring a young father was held at a house under the ruse of getting drugs, Sophie Skye turned up with baseball bat and launched a "brutal" 23-minute attack.
Transpower is disconnecting some North Island power assets in response to an extreme solar storm that will bring stunning views of the Aurora Australis across the country tonight.
A mother says she can never forgive a stranger who kidnapped her daughters and "destroyed" their innocence, confidence and trust by subjecting them to a terrifying ordeal.
Green building advocates say winter power cuts wouldn't be an issue if New Zealand's housing building standards were not decades behind most other countries in the OECD.
Jonathan Beau Hall was not qualified to sign off engineering designs for 946 properties around the country but he did it anyway, forging the signatures of two chartered professional engineers.