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One person has died and another suffered minor injuries after a family-harm incident in Christchurch on Wednesday.

State housing provider Kāinga Ora is halting hundreds of housing developments which would have delivered nearly 3500 homes, and selling a fifth of its vacant land.

New Zealand has paused its core sector support funding for the Cook Islands after its government signed partnership agreements with China earlier this year, Winston Peters office says.

Two staff and their families have been evacuated from the New Zealand embassy in Tehran.

The days of the government counting (almost) everything on a five-yearly basis are over, but a leading academic is worried its replacements will not be as effective.

Police say a body has been found in a car park in the Christchurch suburb of Riccarton.