A potentially record-breaking climate pattern is intensifying unusually fast — and this weekend could offer the first taste of drier, windier conditions.
New Zealand
6:00am
Younger generations still aspire to traditional milestones, but are much less confident of achieving them.
Congestion charges and a switch to "adaptive motorways" have been listed in a new plan to optimise Auckland's busy road network. So how could they work?
Saturday 6:00am
Any Crimes Act offence, any time, can now trigger a citizen's arrest. But there are strict rules for staying on the right side of the law.
Politics
Sun, Aug 16
The party is soaring in the polls – we look at what they would bring if they make it into Parliament.
Sat, Aug 15
The poll landed as National MPs met behind closed doors this morning before deciding they still wanted PM Christopher Luxon as leader.
Wed, Aug 12
What's on Parliament's agenda for the final few weeks of this electoral term.
Sun, Aug 9
Kiwi couples hoping to cut costs could choose to say "I do" outside the traditional wedding calendar.
Life
Sat, Aug 8
Massage therapist Miria Aman's life has been a wild ride through 'the good, the bad and the ugly'.
Sun, Aug 2
Analysis: The national provincial competition celebrates a milestone this year and still retains huge value and a whole lot of memories for Patrick McKendry.
Rugby
Thu, Jul 30
As the Government rolls out the biggest overhaul of New Zealand's school curriculum in nearly two decades, five high school teachers explain why the reforms have them very concerned.
Tue, Jul 28
Protein-labelled products are packing supermarket shelves.
Thu, Jul 23
There are more than 11,000 people in their nineties who hold a current driver's licence.
Health
Wed, Jul 22
Explainer
A new proposal has outlined how digital licenses will work, how they will be issued, what privacy safeguards will apply, and how police will verify them.
Sun, Jul 19
Opinion: Many young people no longer even consider owning a home, but Lucy Bendell explains how it can be done.
Sat, Jul 18
A Waikato woman spent eight months navigating a bureaucratic dead end before a phone call from police achieved what NZTA could not.
Crime and Justice
Thu, Jul 16
Forty years after helping change NZ's laws, James Peters and Matthew Muir are celebrating something else too - four decades together.
Sun, Jul 12
Landlords and property managers have been urged to be more vigilant in checking their rental properties, after recent busts at growhouses linked to organised crime.
Sun, Jul 5
Health experts have warned us for years: The incidence of stroke is on the rise, particularly among young Māori and Pasifika.
Sat, Jul 4
Some staff receive regular grading on eleven measures, including the number of people in their region who receive emergency housing grants.
Sun, Jun 28
For Billy Samountry and his partner Jesse, the diagnosis followed a year already marred by heartbreak.
Critics say the real cost is the strain on the Māori-Crown relationship.
Te Ao Māori
Fri, Jun 26
Both Labour and National have taken falls in the latest 1News Verian poll.
Tue, Jun 23
A mum of three learned photos of her and her family had been used without consent alongside AI-generated explicit content.
A group of university students took part in an experiment with ChatGPT.
Thu, Jun 18
