The Commission says it wants more options for disabled people to secure a space in MIQ.

Thousands of people may be receiving inaccurate health and fertility advice from menstrual tracking apps.

Auckland Council is adding another $5m towards the construction of two new 2000sq/m sound stages and other buildings to the West Auckland site.

Dunedin is expected to need more than 11,000 new homes to cater for its growth by 2050 but the local council predicts it will fall significantly short if changes aren't made.

Migrant workers who have been separated from their families protested at Parliament today, calling on the government to allow their loved ones to enter the country.

MPI officers believe crayfish black-market ring took more than 4300 crayfish from Hawke's Bay.

Coroner Robin Kay's recommendations come as part of an inquiry into the death of Matthew Smith, 18, who drowned off the Sugar Loaf Islands in 2016.

The country's leading campervan hire company is in talks with the New Zealand Transport Agency over its clampdown on truck cab modifications.

The NZNO says DHBs taking them to court over their planned strike action won't help the relationship, but the DHBs deny the move is antagonistic.

Parademics are saying that changes to rosters won't help fatigue among staff.

There are no community cases of Covid-19 and one historical case of Covid-19 in managed isolation, the Ministry of Health has announced.

High-voltage power lines were brought down, trees toppled and train services disrupted, while fire crews were called out to at least 75 weather-related incidents.

The Defence Ministry is years overdue for a legally-required audit of how the military is controlling dangerous materials such as rocket fuel and tonnes of old ammunition.

The jury in the murder trial of Wang Baochang has been discharged, and a new trial will have to be held.

The Canterbury District Health Board is urging people to only visit Christchurch Hospital's emergency department in an emergency.

A report from an environmental coalition says bottom trawlers have hauled up 128 previously unknown species of coral in the past three years.

It is hoped the release of South Island tīeke into a wildlife sanctuary in Nelson could be the start of the first population of the birds on the mainland.

RNZ is challenging a reporting ban that effectively prevents media publishing any information about the fatal police shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens.