Nurses took to the streets across the country today over what they say is pay disparity between community nurses and their counterparts in hospitals.

Women who have been refunded by MSD after being wrongly sanctioned are now being punished again by being double-taxed, beneficiary advocates say.

A mayoral candidate convicted after threatening to burn down an RSA and attack Parliament with explosives is in custody in Whanganui Prison on a charge relating to the 2018 conviction.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed its embassy in Poland's capital Warsaw is working with officials in Ukraine to try to repatriate Dominic Abelen's body.

A former Gloriavale member has told the Employment Court she would work until she fell asleep as a teenager in the closed Christian community.

A little blue penguin buried alive by a slip in the Abel Tasman was uncovered by DOC staff working to clear debris on the coastal track.

Auckland Council has received approval to conduct its third aerial pest control operation in the Hunua Ranges.

The amount of E. Coli in Taranaki rivers will have to drop between 60 and 90 percent to achieve the government's "swimmability" targets, according to a new report.

Entertainment company Fun Solutions has been fined more than $400,000 after a large inflatable slide collapsed injuring a dozen people - most of them children.

Taranaki Regional Council is warning people using private bores for drinking water to make sure they are secure from surface runoff contamination and the water is adequately treated.

No charges will be laid after a crash south of Picton, which killed seven members of a family, police say.

A man who had a tumour removed from his bladder at Nelson Hospital went on to develop terminal cancer after a post surgery appointment was missed.

There are 1653 new cases of Covid-19 in the community today and six further deaths, the Ministry of Health says.

Any survivor of abuse committed by a Dilworth representative or student, as well as families of deceased survivors, can apply for compensation.

Two people remain in critical condition after an explosion at a building site in central Auckland last week.

A New Zealand nurse who has left her job at Middlemore Hospital to be a combat nurse in Ukraine says she will be the sole medic in her team.

National Party health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says he worries about an increasing cloud of secrecy so early in the piece for Te Whatu Ora/Health.

Māori, Pasifika, Asian, as well as disabled and bisexual employees, are disproportionately affected by bullying and harassment in the workplace, according to new research.