Police will establish a national gang unit, supported by 'district gang disruption teams', to target crime, harm and intimidation caused by patched members.
Police are searching for a man after a firearms incident in the Christchurch suburb of Addington that forced a school to be locked down and a person taken to hospital.
Up to 200 production staff could be out of jobs, as the 2024 season of renovation show The Block NZ is axed and the North Shore property remains a building site.
A software glitch led to an employee being overpaid $9000 in wages by a family-owned Christchurch company - but the worker quit just as the agreed repayment scheme kicked in.
Experts say tens of thousands of people could die, hundreds of thousands could be displaced, and the cost of building damage could top $100 billion if a massive earthquake from the Hikurangi subduction zone hit NZ.