United Future has officially been re-registered as a party and its leader now wants online party memberships to be a legitimate way of measuring party registration.

A police officer has been praised for plunging into a strong current as night fell to save a drowning man.

Parents who kill or seriously harm their children will need to prove they're fit to be parents again under new proposed legislation.

One of the country's most dangerous police squads stormed a Christchurch house today, blowing the front door off the home to get to a hostage victim inside.

Police have recovered the body of man who went missing in Tauranga Harbour after a three-car crash on Maungatapu Bridge last night.

MetService meteorologist Daniel Corbett says there's a "bit of everything" on the way.

John Key says no environment in the world has been '100 percent pure' since the day "cavemen turned up and started burning fires".

A police dive squad is heading to Tauranga this morning to help search for a man missing after a serious crash overnight.

This week the Campbell Live team are travelling the country to see whether New Zealanders are for or against the Governmentas controversial GCSB bill.

The Valley Flyer bus left the road and crashed into a large hedge in Upper Hutt around 11:40am.

The identity of a former top Whangarei cop accused of taking drugs from the police exhibits locker can finally be revealed.

The Opposition is describing the Government's new housing policy as tinkering around the margins.

Alone and scared, two-year-old Gabriel Donnelly was found in a shed.

Mayor Len Brown took Auckland's upcoming electric trains for a trial spin this morning, courtesy of a simulator at the newly built train depot in Wiri.

Police are still looking for the man who's believed to have abducted a toddler in Auckland yesterday.

Houses in Christchurchas residential red zone are being bought for a bargain and then relocated to better land.

Four months ago 3 News brought you the story of the Christchurch dairy owners forced to shut their doors because they were operating in the red zone.

Police are treating the disappearance of two-year-old Gabriel Donnelly, seen leaving a Panmure address with Phillip Layton Edwards, as an abduction.

Marlborough's Waihopai Valley is the location of New Zealand's spy base, but this week it has gained recognition for a completely different reason.

The Department of Corrections has set an ambitious target of reducing re-offending by 25 percent by 2017 and they're made a good start with rates already down by 10 percent.

Vodafone says it wants to meet with other internet suppliers to discuss the possibility of blocking social networking site Ask FM from New Zealand.

If child health is improved, what difference will that make in the long term? Tonight Campbell LIVE checks out a pilot scheme in the far North.

Christchurch is looking forward, forced to start from scratch in some areas, and determined to get it right.

Jon Stephenson, the journalist who took the Chief of the Defence Force Rhys Jones to court is looking to do it all again.

A backlash from angry anglers has forced a Government backdown on plans to slash catch limits for snapper.

Fonterra bosses faced some tough questions today from government about the botulism contamination scare.

From January, motorists who have vehicles registered after 2004 will only have to get a WOF once a year, instead of every six months.

In a move designed to improve safety, St John has rolled out the first of their new yellow ambulances.

A man is in hospital in a serious condition after the logging truck he was driving rolled near Katikati this afternoon.

Controversial proposed cuts to the snapper quota are continuing to upset recreational fishermen.

New Zealand policing history was made today, as the first Muslim woman graduated.

The annual Cure Kids appeal is in full swing, raising money for research into childhood diseases.

This has been a week Theo Spierings will never forget.

A fortnight ago the Environment Ministry reported 60 percent of monitored rivers in New Zealand are unsafe for swimming.

The company's chairman John Wilson has promised a full and thorough review into exactly "what happened and why".

Nathan Guy hasn't been at any official press conferences and put out his first press release on the crisis today.

The police's own files show Winston Peters was next in line to be investigated during the teapot tape scandal.

Labour says the Government's new policy requiring earthquake-prone buildings to be strengthened or demolished within 20 years needs more detail.

An Auckland motorist is lucky to have escaped with minor injuries after his car hit a fence and flipped in east Auckland tonight.

A website which makes it possible to send texts from a fake user has prompted calls for a law change.

Tame Iti spent nine months in jail on firearms charges, after he was accused of taking part in some sort of paramilitary training group.

One Bay of Plenty woman fought the botulism disease in the 1980s and survived.

It's private land, taken for a rail line in the 1800s. There is no rail anymore, but the land's now become part of the national cycle way.

The Government's found some good news in new jobless figures, as other political parties accuse it of failing to create jobs.

A police officer has appeared in court this afternoon charged with smuggling items into a number of Auckland prisons.

Police will carry out new tests on the Bain family murder weapon in Christchurch next week.

Wearing a patch or any other gang insignia in a government or local body-owned property is about to become a crime.

Winston Peters has told Parliament police considered seizing his phone records during the 2011 election campaign and John Key's office was involved.

Police are to carry out new tests to determine what caused parallel marks on Robin Bain's thumb after the evidence was revealed by 3rd Degree.

Family members of those killed in Christchurch's February 22nd earthquake say they're disgusted at the vandalism of a quake memorial.

Judith Collins says there won't be any inquiries into the conviction of Teina Pora until after he has completed his appeal process.

Three people were rescued from a major house fire in Christchurch over night.

A group of Christchurch developers are redefining what it means to build a home.

The family of a Northland man paralysed while in police custody want the officer involved stood down.

Campbell LIVE met the man developing an upmarket Victorian shopping arcade in industrial working class Woolston.

A 19-year-old has been rescued on a remote island off Auckland, three days and two nights after his dinghy capsized in bad weather.

David Bain's legal team has accused Justice Minister Judith Collins of hijacking Mr Bain's attempt to get compensation.

Opposition parties have used the tactic of deliberately wasting time to hold up progress of the Government's GCSB spy bill.

John Banks was in charge when Teina Pora was charged with murder, and at the time Mr Banks was convinced he was guilty.

Two men who posed as painters left a 46-year-old man with a broken nose and fractured cheek and eye socket after robbing a club of $30,000.