It is not clear who carried out last week’s attack on Waikato hospital, which downed computers and phone lines

A major New Zealand hospital faces a second week of disruption as it struggles to fix its computer system following a massive cyber attack.

The attack on Waikato district health board (DHB), which began on Tuesday, has been described by its chief executive, Kevin Snee, as “probably the biggest cyber-attack in New Zealand’s history”.

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern said there was no evidence the attack at a Countdown store was an incident of domestic terrorism

Four people have been injured, three critically, after a stabbing attack at a supermarket in the New Zealand city of Dunedin.

Police said a suspect had been arrested and taken into custody after the incident at a Countdown supermarket on Monday afternoon. Two supermarket staff members were among those injured.

Under the government’s current plans it will be half a century before house prices return to affordability

One-third of New Zealanders rent. In my electorate and home, Auckland Central, the centre of the largest city in the country, it’s even more: 54%.

For a really long time, the conversation around housing was one of avocados and flat whites. Renters, we were told, were in a temporary moment of their life. They were, the story went, on a path to homeownership, if only they could reign in their spending on fancy cafe food.

Geoff Upson says he has drawn about 100 penises around potholes in a bid to force his local council to fix them

A New Zealand man who began drawing very large penises around the potholes in his home city of Auckland in 2018 in the hopes of attracting the attention of his local council has been threatened with police action.

In a video, road safety campaigner Geoff Upson made after the most recent addition to his oeuvre, saying: “I’m about sick of calling Auckland transport.”