The Supreme Court has been hearing arguments for and against the ban, due to come into force next week.
1News revisits 15 years' worth of Kiwis changing their communities and lives around them.
Thirteen new sections off a flood-damaged road in the Marlborough Sounds have been granted consent, despite concerns about sediment runoff and the removal of vegetation.
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage said it was discovered by a local family, who informed the ministry of the find.
Inspector Peter Cooper said the pair were a 20-year-old male and a 17-year-old female.
Whakaari/White Island is currently "passively" emitting a "weak-to-moderate" steam and gas plume containing minor quantities of volcanic ash, volcanologists say.
It was a busy weekend for lifeguards up and down the country who spent Saturday and Sunday helping beachgoers through medical incidents, rescues, shark sightings, and even a person being kicked by a horse.
While the air will be mostly cooler, fine weather is forecast for much of the country, MetService said.
Former world champion Anthony Joshua, among others, believes Kiwi Parker will beat Daniel Dubois for the IBF heavyweight world title next month.
Twenty-four people confirmed to have died and more than 12,300 structures destroyed — including the homes of two New Zealanders according to the Consul-General — in wildfires that remain neither controlled nor contained.
Helicopters Otago chief executive officer Graeme Gale said the theft took place at Taieri Airfield, just after a critically ill patient had been taken to Dunedin Hospital.
Firefighters and their equipment were ferried to the scene by the Nelson Harbourmaster.
Multiple crews and helicopters continued to battle a vegetation fire on the Coromandel Peninsula this morning after it was brought under control yesterday.
Chief executive Greg Foran said he was "very proud" of the Air New Zealand whānau for "consistently and diligently putting safety at the forefront of everything we do".
New English and maths curriculums will be implemented, new schools lunches will be rolled out, and charter schools will return to the education system.
Samir Derek Belhajjam, 30, fled from a police transport vehicle at the Taupō District Court at around 6pm.
