Cherie Howie

A teacher is being investigated over an allegation relating to his conduct towards a student.

A $1.1 billion upgrade is on the way for the Cook Strait cable after the Commerce Commission agreed to Transpower's investment plans for the vital electricity link.

A wet and windy weekend is on the way for the bottom half of the country, with a 24-hour drenching inbound for some and others set for an early winter blasting and severe gales gusting to 130km/h.

Westland ranges may receive up to 350mm of rain over a 24-hour period.

One person has died after a van crash near Gisborne that injured 11 others, five seriously.

One person died and 11 were hurt, five seriously, in the single-vehicle crash on Wharekopae Rd in Pātūtahi, 14km west of Gisborne, about 5.20pm yesterday.

An Auckland restaurant owner must pay almost $400,000 after “ruthlessly” exploiting migrant workers paid for 30 hours' labour a week, but working up to three times as long.

A young man “who had so much life ahead of him” has been named online by family after his body was found in an Auckland pond.

A New Plymouth business owner who cheated death when a tree crashed down on his light truck as wild weather swept across the lower North Island has already bought a Lotto ticket.

It was a rollercoaster ride for passengers on a Wellington-bound Air New Zealand flight from Brisbane that was forced to abort its landing as gales lashed the capital yesterday.