Some Uber users have been left feeling like they've been taken for a ride, after being charged up to $150 for spilling water on their seats.

A risk report, produced by independent engineers for KiwiRail and obtained under the Official Information Act, largely focuses on a busy stretch approaching the station where multiple tracks converge.

Aaron Richardson, a firefighter from Paekakariki on the Kapiti Coast had an unexpected start to his holiday, when he was called to a late night harbour rescue in Northland.

You'll have heard in the past few days, stories of drugs made with pesticides at Rhythm and Vines. A drug-testing organisation Know Your Stuff, managing director Wendy Allison tells us what the volunteers are seeing on the ground this Summer.

It's nearly a year since Martin Guptill last turned out for the New Zealand cricket side, but the Auckland batsmen will finally make a return to the crease today after a 2018 blighted by injury.

ACT leader David Seymour tells us his favourite Christmas cracker joke.

More than 100 holiday makers have been evacuated from two holiday parks in Waihi after heavy rain brought flooding overnight.

Good Bitches Baking was set up four years ago by two women and now boasts 17-hundred volunteers around the country. They bake in their homes then deliver the treats to people in need and charities who work with those people.

Craig McCulloch takes a look back at the political highs and lows of 2018.

Deputy Prime Minister and leader of New Zealand First Winston Peters shares his favourite Christmas cracker joke.