A committee voted unanimously to chip seal the road despite residents' objections.
The morning's headlines in 90 seconds, including new footage of an armed man running into Sylvia Park, a train derails in the UK, and a Brisbane supermarket fight caught on camera.
The Prime Minister emerged from a three-hour caucus meeting on Wednesday having won a confidence vote, with Wayne Mapp saying it wasn't as clean as previous attempts.
Earlier, a weather radar detected severe thunderstorms offshore north of Cape Brett, Purerua, Paihia and Kerikeri.
An adult could be seen desperately trying to cling to the boy as the bus drove off.
Yesterday, a man was shot as he approached Auckland’s Sylvia Park Shopping Centre carrying an air rifle – but how dangerous are they?
Auckland Transport said the proposed new lanes were intended to improve how Aucklanders reached the new stations.
Police named the man with a stolen air rifle shot dead by police as Hapai Otene, 33.
National unveiled a South Island growth package as it seeks to move past leadership turmoil, with Labour accusing it of neglecting the region and recycling old promises.
"Decisions and actions within FIFA have contributed to a breakdown in trust and increased division within international football," the organisation said.
The public broadcaster has reopened its voluntary redundancy scheme, previously run in 2025/26, as a first step in the process.
Police said emergency services were called to the incident in Hokitika just before 9am.
Photos provided to 1News show the vehicle embedded in the shopfront, with broken glass and twisted metal framing strewn across the footpath.
Southland District council has owned Te Anau Airport Manapōuri since 2002, when it acquired it from Air New Zealand for $401,000.
The 52-year-old appeared in court charged with unlawful intimidation, driving while disqualified, reckless driving and reckless ill-treatment of an animal.
"You could end up with infrastructure on one side and a generator on the other."
A Trans-Tasman group of producers commissioned testing of some products, believing some couldn't make ends meet with crude avocado oil prices.
A recent Education Review Office report finds more than half of teachers believe AI is hurting students' ability to think for themselves.
