The family of a man mauled to death say they have heard nothing from the owner of the aggressive dogs found at his property.

A team tasked with deconstructing a Christchurch war memorial so it can be moved to a new site has uncovered an unexpected time capsule.

It has cost the nation's roading agency nearly $250,000 to prove that LED billboards next to one of the country's most dangerous highways are not a good idea.

Residents from The Terrace in Wellington have been moved to hotels for the night while a major slip is being cleaned up.

A "chain of errors" led to an 8-year-old boy having nasal surgery despite his parents' refusal to give consent to the procedure, the Health and Disability Commissioner says.

A diabetic woman died less than 24 hours after she was admitted to a rest home because she did not receive the life-saving medication she depended on, an investigation has found.

The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a woman died from lung cancer after a doctor missed an opportunity to diagnose her three years earlier.

The West Coast Regional Council has invited Snodgrass Road residents to the meeting to hear expert advice.

An accident which killed two men in a Robinson R44 near Queenstown would not have occurred in any other type of helicopter, a coroner has found.

Police have arrested a man in Te Aroha in relation to the death of a woman in Cambridge in the early hours of Monday morning.

More than $40,000 has been raised for the whānau of a Franz Josef man involved in a plane crash as they await the delayed recovery operation.

The Nurses Organisation says nine nurses applying in the first four weeks of a new residency visa is a fraction of the number required, but the Minister of Health says the final number is not yet tallied.

One of the deaths being reported in today's update was a child under the age of 10, the Ministry of Health says.

Chinese surveillance cameras remain in wide use in New Zealand despite renewed controversy about them overseas.

The last of the dogs missing from a Northland property where a man was killed in a suspected mauling has been found.

Experts are concerned New Zealand's second largest and fastest growing ethnic group is falling through the cracks of the health system.

Efforts are underway to establish if a body found at Cape Foulwind is a man who went missing at Maruia Falls in June.

A homicide investigation is underway in Cambridge after a woman was found dead in the early hours of the morning.