The husband of a former Oranga Tamariki employee who helped his wife defraud the agency of more than $2 million has been sentenced to 12 months' home detention.

A man has been arrested following a four-hour stand-off in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill.

A Coroner has taken aim at Runit competitions saying they should not be recognised as an official sport.

An ongoing feud bubbling away between two Dunedin men hit boiling point when they tried to ram each other off the road.

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.