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A $5 per hour parking fee at popular tourist spots on the West Coast and Canterbury raised $214,000 in its first month.

Geotech engineers told Tauranga City Council 20 years ago buildings shouldn't be allowed in the "runout" zones of potential landslides, unless they had specially constructed protection.

Warning: disturbing content. Police have prosecuted fewer than one in 10 of the cases referred from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

Christmas Eve has been the busiest shopping day of the year with 9745 sales a minute at its peak.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis will not be standing for an electorate seat at the next election.

A South Island supermarket could face a bill of $200,000 for failing to control a rat infestation early last year.

"Once those sheds caught fire, it was game over."

Christchurch's Michael Turner has been collecting hairdressing tools for more than 25 years, building the biggest private collection in the Southern Hemisphere.

A tsunami advisory alert for New Zealand and the Chatham Islands has been lifted two days after a powerful earthquake in Russia but a warning remains for "strong and unusual" currents.

A mother was in tears as she shut her eyes and blocked her ears in when a man’s campaign of terror over her family was revealed in Christchurch court.

Parents of NZ citizens and residents will be able to access visas, with the govt announcing a programme it says will bring families together.