Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says do not expect any curveballs in this month's Budget, nor any bells and whistles, but he has reaffirmed a commitment to tax relief.
Gunmen ambushed a prison van in France on Tuesday to free a drug dealer, killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt.
A warning for New Zealanders in New Caledonia or those planning to visit - contact your travel insurance providers immediately, in light of the civil unrest.
A bus carrying farm labourers in northern Florida collided with a pickup truck and overturned, killing at least eight people and critically injuring eight others, authorities say.
A 16-year-old was arrested last night after multiple complaints about a youth in Port Chalmers, wearing a balaclava and threatening people with a baseball bat.
A court will be told more about the movements of Charlise Mutten's mother and alleged killer in the days before her disappearance in the Blue Mountains.
A teen on bail ordered his mate to shoot at police who were pursuing them, with the bullet hitting the bonnet of the patrol car and leaving the officers fearing for their lives.
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".