Last month, a patient left ED due to long wait times and died the next day. Now the former DHB chair says Health NZ is responsible for investigating.

Cooking with coffee proves too mucgh for one contestant who, in all honestly, probably should have gone home already.

Local MP Chloë Swarbrick said the iconic food truck's licensing troubles show "something deeply and profoundly wrong" with the council's system.

Smokefree 2025 aims to greatly reduce the number of outlets selling tobacco, but many corner shops say they would struggle to stay open.

The crown prosecutor in a murder trial at Invercargill says the evidence is clear - there was no struggle going on for a rifle when Otautau man Dale Watene was shot in the head and killed.

Thomasin McKenzie returns to the small screen, Neil Patrick-Harris deals with heartbreak and Taron Egerton finds himself with an awful dilemma.

REVIEW: Now streaming on Neon, this tale of an underground support network is vital viewing for anyone interested in the history behind the headlines.

Peter Lui had a literal target on his back as two Mongrel Mob members planned to rob him of his Outlaws patch in an attack where he was stabbed 13 times and later died, the Crown tells the court.

After conflicting advice and prescription charge confusion, users of the carcinogen-tainted blood pressure pills say Pharmac has "created more issues".

The unit was meant to be operational in Q1 of this year, but started work seven weeks late, citing recruitment problems.

Digital signs advertising Paul Eagle's mayoral bid are still up, eight weeks before council policy supposedly allows, and his lawyers have hit back at council's request to remove them.

A crash left a lane of the Northern Motorway on the Waimakariri Bridge partially blocked through Monday's evening rush hour.

Skifields are being hit with a "double whammy", as staff hit by Covid-19 force their fellow worker housemates into isolation - just as tourists start to arrive again.

Ram Karki frantically knocked on his neighbour's door when he saw flames in the driveway. He managed to rouse a young man but the blaze had already claimed a life.

The final episodes of season four have dropped and that late '80s proto-grunge vibe has got you like Vecna gets school kids.

Malachi Subecz and Ferro-James Sio were both abused and killed by their carers, but professionals who knew of their injuries did not tell authorities.

He led the Southern District Health Board through some of its most tumultuous periods, but Chris Fleming says there will always be unmet health needs in New Zealand.

ANALYSIS: PM Jacinda Ardern is giving a decent chunk of her time to our trans-Tasman neighbour - and there is good reason for it.

Shoppers could be paying more for less as manufacturers shrink product sizes but not prices.

Would you sleep in David Attenborough's bed?