Stories by Amy Williams

Insurers are bringing in extra staff from overseas and warning it will be years before all claims are settled for flood damaged homes, cars and contents in Auckland.

A pregnant woman who arrived in New Zealand last year is among those left homeless and distressed by the Auckland flooding.

Three children missing with their father for a year may be feeling anxious about being isolated from other family members for so long, a clinical psychologist says.

City missions across the country say people who have jobs but can't afford their ongoing costs are increasingly turning up for help.

Only three wealthy foreign investors have applied for residency since the government overhauled the rules last spring and they are in limbo.

Elderly owners of retirement flats in Auckland have asked local boards to step in and stall the Auckland Council selling its share in the units.

The Crown is appealing a High Court decision that a 501 deportee from Australia had human rights breached. Meanwhile, an advocate for deportees says she's had an influx of queries after the decision.

The cost of putting on a Christmas spread and buying gifts for your true love has soared in recent years thanks to inflation.

More patients with the chronic condition lymphoedema could be "offered the opportunity" to be treated at a hospital outside their district or privately, due to a lack of services in every region.

A Wellington woman is angry the city has no public service for people with lymphoedema while those from most other regions can access funded care.

Melanoma survivor Joyanne Lovatt says her right leg has been a constant reminder of her battle with cancer.

Auckland's new mayor had wanted the deputy prime minister and other senior officials work alongside city councillors on key issues - but it was turned down.

The government's strategy to reduce road deaths and injuries failed to meet all but one of its targets with breath testing and reducing speed limits lagging the most.

Auckland's major events calendar looks alarmingly empty from 2024 and the city's culture and economic agency says it urgently needs to find $20 million a year to start filling it.

Auckland Council's cultural and economic development agency Tātaki Auckland Unlimited says it is short of nearly $20 million to attract visitors to the city.

Jesse Kempson is appealing two sentences he received after killing Grace Millane, arguing two women exaggerated their experiences with him.

Just one person has applied for New Zealand residency through a new visa category that targets the rich.

Age Concern says it is nonsense for Auckland Council to suggest dozens of its flats for the elderly have been vacant because of the pandemic.

A digger-driving stevedore from Tauranga has paved the way for port workers to get better conditions, after years of legal battles.

More than a third of 150 flats Auckland Council has repurchased across 14 villages sit vacant, and the council has run out of funds to refurbish them.

The deputy Solicitor General says a rapist's sentence of nine months' home detention is manifestly inadequate and there has been a miscarriage of justice.

The mother of a man who died after being left face-down in a police cell with an incorrectly fitted spit hood covering his face says a coroner's inquest will give her family some closure.

Former National MP Jami-Lee Ross has been cleared of fraud charges over political donations in part because the judge agreed a sense of betrayal and mental breakdown could have led him to lie.

The pain at the pump is expected to worsen over coming months as petrol companies pass on price hikes from a cut in global oil production and sanctions on Russian marine oil tankers.

Auckland commuters have been slow to return to public transport with many still working from home at least part of the week, unwilling to risk a service that is still too hit and miss for many…