Residents of a town north of Auckland are so desperate to fill their water tanks they're taking water from their fire reserves.

Kaipara mayor Greg Gent joins us now.

A brief update of movements in the financial sector.

The government is planning to ban products containing plastic microbeads such as facial scrubs, cleansers, and toothpastes.

The family of a man killed nine years ago in a tragic hut fire have returned to New Zealand and visited the memorial erected in his memory.

A group of people who managed to save the life of a tourist by plucking him from incredibly cold water and starting his heart again have been praised by emergency services.

With just four days to go before Donald Trump's inauguration, the US President-elect has lashed out at German Chancellor Angela Merkel calling her policies on admitting migrants a "very catastrophic mistake".

A leading patient advocate is calling for more continuity of caregivers for those with a terminal illness.

It was a rocky start for the Maori Party's Whanau Ora policy seven years ago but in the past two years the three commissioning agencies have reached and are engaging with 8,900 families.

A new study reveals that a type of native birdsong, now lost in Britain, can still be heard here in New Zealand after being brought here 150 years ago.