Gloriavale Christian School's new principal has accused people of making a coordinated effort to shut the school down and take its children away by lodging simultaneous complaints against every teacher.

Women's health expert Professor Beverley Lawton says today marks a major win for wāhine in Aotearoa, with Pharmac confirming it is removing all funding restrictions from progesterone.

Police have named the five people who died when a vessel - chartered for a birdwatching trip - overturned in Goose Bay, Kaikōura.

Nurses silently protested over pay issues as the Health Minister fronted up to the Nurses Organisation annual conference today.

Black ribbons line the fence outside the Rotorua Ambulance Station commemorating the death of one of their own. St John chief executive Dan Ohs says the loss of their officer is hard to stomach.

New Zealand police are seeking the extradition of a woman in Korea over the deaths of two children, whose bodies were found in suitcases in Auckland last month.

A TVNZ lawyer says it isn't up to the broadcaster to accommodate sign language in matters of emergency.

A judge has thrown out a case against a homeless man, saying he has already spent too long in prison.

Food safety authorities are still yet to identify which brand of frozen berries caused three New Zealanders to contract Hepatitis A.

The rate of sea-level rise around Aotearoa New Zealand has doubled in recent decades compared with the first half of last century, Stats NZ says.

A Rotorua mayoral candidate says the city is "sitting on a precipice" and being "destroyed" by its emergency housing in motels issues and is calling on the government to act immediately.

An environment watchdog is promising a tighter rein on consents around ongoing pollution from the country's only aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point, as they say costs for the clean up may hit $1 billion.

A former Whangārei mayor and deputy chairman of the Northland Regional Council has been convicted and fined for two air pollution breaches.

Te Whatu Ora's Southern section has applied for a safe zone around its Dunedin abortion clinic at the first available opportunity.

One of New Zealand's best known union leaders, Ken Douglas, has died aged 86.

A woman has been arrested for the murder of two young children whose remains were discovered in suitcases in Manurewa, South Auckland in August 2022.

There is "limited evidence of any direct benefits" from a free GP visit scheme which was intended to take pressure off an overloaded emergency department, a review has found.

The man who bludgeoned a Christchurch woman to death with a hockey stick has been sentenced to life in prison.