The black robin has won Bird of the Year 2026, its first title, with a record 98,920 votes and 88 percent of them cast inside New Zealand.

New Zealand First has released a 15-point election health policy arguing the country spends $33 billion a year treating sickness and almost nothing preventing it.

New Zealand's annual current account deficit widened to $14.58 billion, 3.2 percent of GDP, in the year to June 2026 as higher fuel import prices bit.

Nurses say Whanganui Hospital's 15-bed emergency department averaged 680 percent occupancy over a week in September. Health New Zealand disputes that number but confirms a 253 percent peak, about 50 ...

Pippa Yates found moa bones in a clay bank at St Andrews Beach south of Timaru and the South Canterbury Museum confirmed them. She now has half a bucket full.

The Green Party would change New Zealand commercial lease law so rent reviews can lower rents, and let councils auction leases on shops empty over a year.

New Zealand has no licensing for body corporate managers who hold millions in apartment owners' funds. The industry association is calling for change.

Sam Tanner ran 3min 56.01sec to finish 12th at the world road running championships in Copenhagen, breaking the New Zealand road mile record. Hannah Gapes was ninth in the 5km.

National would end screen and device use in early childhood centres, tightly limit screens in Years 1 to 3 and add a School Start Check. Labour and the Greens respond.

New Zealand King Salmon has lifted FY26 earnings guidance for the third time this year to $36m-$39m pro-forma EBITDA, four years after a marine heatwave killed its fish and closed three farms.

American Olympic medallist Hailey Van Lith has signed with the Tokomanawa Queens for New Zealand's Tauihi basketball season, which starts on 25 September.

Customs seized 39,196 meth pipes and bongs at the New Zealand border from January to July 2026, more than all of 2025 and 25 times the 2024 total.