Stories by Lauren Crimp

They include strangulation, threatening to kill, and making and distributing an intimate recording.

An Air New Zealand flight has been forced to return to Auckland for engineering checks, after it was struck by lightning on Friday evening.

Some residents of Templeton, on the outskirts of Christchurch, can't use their bore water.

The local government bodies have formed a new group with the sole focus of responding to homelessness.

Authorities had got it "fairly right" over a possible threat to homes near a river north of Tūrangi, a resident says.

The Ministry of Education is now poised to take legal action against parents who fail to send their kids to school, David Seymour says. Audio

The proportion of adult sexual assault victims making police reports has more than quadrupled since 2018, and a victims' advocate is crediting the Me Too movement.

Thousands of jobs have been cut as part of government cost-saving. But exactly how many have gone depends on who you ask.

The government is better off using its resources to help people find work, rather than punishing those who can not, says the Salvation Army. Audio

New Zealand universities must stand up for Harvard as the Trump administration attempts to stop it from enrolling international students, a local law professor says. Audio

The Financial Markets Authority has told staff to complete a weekly survey detailing things like hours worked, tasks completed daily and how long they took.

Winter sport and roadworks are causing lengthy delays.

The blustery wind and driving rain may have died down but power cuts, ferry cancellations, flight backlogs and rubberneckers still confound the capital. Audio

The Ministry of Social Development has scrapped the first phase of its 'early interventions' programme.

Police say there have been multiple unconfirmed sightings of missing 12-year-old William Walmsley.

The Ministry of Social Development said in a report this was because it could not cope with workloads, which included work relating to changes to the Jobseeker benefit. Audio

It comes two weeks after a gun-wielding man got into a nurse's car and threatened her.

Of the 1500 new places, 1000 were last week allocated to five housing providers through 'strategic partnerships' to make contracting the homes more efficient.

Kory-Dean Wirihana checked in for a flight to Christchurch on Friday and cleared security but never boarded the plane.

The agency confirmed this week it was consulting on proposed restructures in its people and culture team, and communications and engagement team.

RNZ's list of who is running for the capital's top job and what they are standing for.

Affected staff say they feel despondent and exhausted.

The nurses' union said it had been raising concerns about staff parking at the hospital for months.

The agency confirmed it began a "formal change process" on Monday, consulting with staff and unions on proposed changes to the team

Police are still looking for a man who jumped into the hospital worker's back seat late at night.