NewsBank (Weekend Herald)

Two New Zealand artists have answered a call from the Tongan Queen to help take the Pacific nation’s tapa cloth to the world — and in doing so create a revenue stream for women living in the Kingdom’s villages.

A man forced his former partner into his car before speeding off in a rage and threatening to crash and kill them both.

Kiwi businessman Sam Stubbs, who received flak for comments on Charlie Kirk, says the US conservative’s opinions made him angry and he wanted to express that.

Tom Phillips had access to an armoury of at least eight firearms while on the run from police, the Weekend Herald can reveal.

The caregiver of an elderly man with dementia tried to get him to change his will with handwritten notes she had penned, and he then signed, instructing him to leave everything to her when he died.

A Rotorua teen has been praised by thousands for his acts of kindness helping shoppers.

An advocate is fearing for victims as figures show the number of electronic bail violations has skyrocketed over the past 10 years.

A straightforward passive investment opportunity on Gisborne’s commercial fringe could be the gateway into the market for first-time investors.

The combined strength of two nationally significant tenants underpins a tenanted commercial asset in the heart of Whanganui’s civic and commercial district. It offers passive investors an opportunity to acquire a proven income-generating asset in a dynamic regional economy, Bayleys brokers say.

A fully leased industrial showroom and warehousing property at the western end of Kingsland’s busy retail and commercial strip is for sale following a comprehensive refurbishment and seismic upgrade in 2020.

‘It can sit quite heavily,” says Westpac chief executive Catherine McGrath, on the responsibility of heading up a major bank.

You’d expect MPs to take a break from embarrassing themselves during the parliamentary recess, stepping off the hamster wheel of national schadenfreude that characterises so many of their sitting weeks.

With a 14th-place finish and another penalty in Saudi Arabia, Lawson’s post-race reaction said it all.

Q: Something that’s been a bugbear of mine is that ANZ, as the largest KiwiSaver provider and one of the largest employers in the country, does not offer KiwiSaver employer contributions for a large number of its employees, specifically those on a “total employment cost” or “managerial” contract.

In 1991, Rose Willemsen left home to join the Army. A farm girl from Kai Iwi, a small rural community near Whanganui, she was the youngest of nine children and had not long turned 18.

Just three days after US President Donald Trump sketched out an idea to meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un again, Kim responded by accepting a different kind of invitation — to Beijing, where he will join Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping in a show of defiance against the Western-led global order.

One of Newmarket’s best character buildings, which has been reconfigured from an iconic restaurant into four ground-floor retail spaces with office space upstairs, is for sale.

Canterbury and Wellington are being hit harder than Auckland by insurance price hikes the industry says are partly beyond its control.

Pāmu, formerly Landcorp, reported a net profit after tax of $120 million for the year ended June 2025, which will see it return a $15 million dividend.

The project management expertise of Colliers has been recognised at the RICS New Zealand Awards 2025 in Auckland.

The Defence Force is gearing up for the “exciting” arrival of five new “sub-hunters”: helicopters fitted with a torpedo system able to detect a submarine underwater.

What’s one word to sum up your mood right now?

Auckland Transport (AT) is fitting more than 70 buses with live CCTV cameras, amid a surge in violent attacks on drivers.

Nicky Winstanley was tying her son’s shoelaces when he looked past her at the television livestream and said: “Oh, there’s a police officer covered in blood and steam.”

The phone calls and encrypted messages start arriving late at night — and continue well into the early hours of the morning.

Two of the stars from the Lord of the Rings film series will return to Auckland for New Zealand’s biggest pop culture expo.

Roughly 35 minutes into our conversation, Ginette McDonald tells me she talks too much.

A soldier with links to two white supremacist groups says he became desperate after the Christchurch mosque shootings, after becoming the focus of a police investigation.

A man with historical indecency convictions who later became a teacher and abused young girls also moonlighted as a Christmas Santa at three of Auckland’s biggest malls.

‘I love living here,” says Raewyn Hill, as she sits on the sofa in her Gore Bay home of five years overlooking some wild, wintry Pacific Ocean waves.