Police are open to receiving further complaints about a former teacher aide, described by a victim as a “sick and dangerous man”, who has been jailed for sexual offending against young girls.

The first full rubber road surface in New Zealand has been laid in Canterbury.

Extra demand on Gull's discount day has left some of its petrol stations running low on fuel.

The leaders of Iran, Israel and the US have voiced defiance and vowed to fight on as the Middle East war approaches the two-week mark, killing thousands of people.

Four people have now died after a crash between a car and a campervan on State Highway 1 south of Blenheim last month.

The evacuation of a Christchurch street on Thursday is understood to have been caused by an old store of picric acid inside a business.

Police have formally identified a former Dunedin resident whose remains were found on a Waikato highway.

Farah keeps her phone nearby with the ringtone turned up at all hours, waiting for the rare calls that might come from her family in Iran.