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".
Some first year University of Canterbury students are so famished they are resorting to buying takeaways after meals, despite paying annual residence hall fees of about $20,000.
Police will establish a national gang unit, supported by 'district gang disruption teams', to target crime, harm and intimidation caused by patched members.
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.
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.
Ngāti Kahu has finished drafting a letter to King Charles III calling on him to stop what they say is a violent attack on Te Tiriti O Waitangi, a Māori academic and iwi chairperson says.
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.