Last year deaths from ovarian cancer topped the road toll, yet people with the disease say it is an ignored crisis.

Queenstown Airport is forecasting a return to pre-pandemic passenger numbers by 2024.

A detective has recounted the illicit drugs found on the property where Auckland man Denver Chance's body was found in a chest freezer in 2019.

A person who had not yet completed managed isolation was given an exemption to visit a patient in Christchurch Hospital yesterday.

New Zealanders are sending fewer text messages and disconnecting the landline but upping their internet usage, according to a report from the Commerce Commission.

A detective re-investigating the Red Fox Tavern shooting and robbery has insisted another man who was considered a suspect was not responsible for the crime.

Six people have been arrested in Waikato this morning after several cars were stolen.

A Samoan-NZ lifeguard is encouraging Pasifika to take up swimmining lessons in the wake of a report highlighting their over-representation in drowning statistics.

The smelter which produced toxic waste that eventually ended up stored in a small Southland town says the material is still being moved, despite reports to the contrary.

Two new cases of Covid-19 have been identified in managed isolation and quarantine facilities, the Ministry of Health says.

The Education Ministry's sale of Taihape Area School's educational farm asset to put into the Treaty settlements landbank has divided a community and raised issues over the legality of the move.

Civil Defence in Northland has apologised after a fault in its network set off tsunami sirens in the Whangārei and Kaipara districts.

A report says the number of people with type 2 diabetes could rise by as much as 90 percent across the next two decades

A vaccination campaign to prevent another dangerous measles epidemic has reached only 3 percent of its target as DHBs struggle in the wake of Covid-19.

"I would like to reiterate on behalf of the whole Salvation Army our deep regret and shame," Salvation Army chief secretary in New Zealand Gerry Walker says.

A detective who was part of the team re-investigating the Red Fox Tavern shooting and robbery has detailed the extensive enquiries police made about a man who was ultimately ruled out as a suspect.

A cash-starved Auckland cafe that feeds the homeless through people "paying it forward" has been saved after the community kicked in tens of thousand of dollars.

A rest home and two nurses have been found in breach of the Health and Disability code after giving an elderly man five times more morphine than he should have had.