A former Gloriavale member says she returned to work a week after her baby was born and believes the early separation from her eldest child has had an ongoing effect.

The Tertiary Education Union says nearly all members agreed on the vote at stop-work meetings on Wednesday.

Doctors desperate to make public hospitals better are despairing over the state of radiology. Some think things have got so bad, the only fix may be to privatise further.

A volcano seismologist says the raising of the alert level for the Lake Taupō volcano from zero to one is more a sign of improved monitoring rather than unusual activity.

For the first time, NIWA has used satellite images to monitor the health of coastal waters around Aotearoa by tracking levels of suspended sediment in those waters.

A Kiwi student who broke nearly every bone in her body after a nightmare rock climbing fall in California last month has made it home to New Zealand.

A prolific TikTok user from Invercargill who racked up millions of views on his videos before vanishing from the social media platform has been arrested in the United States, charged with attempted murder.

More than 100,000 Aucklanders have been caught on camera using their phones or not wearing a seatbelt while driving in just three months.

A major slip in Wairarapa has closed parts of State Highway 53 between Featherston and Martinborough, while motorists in Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti are asked to take extra care due to forecast heavy rain.

There needs to be a limit of 28 days for retirement village residents to keep paying for units once they move out, an advocate says.

The percentage of domestic university students who are men has reached an all-time low of 39 percent, and it is worrying universities.

The prodigious shooter told RNZ she wants other girls to know they can represent New Zealand "no matter what you look like and where you've come from".

The Christchurch mayor has written to the Minister for the Environment asking him not to intervene to enforce denser housing rules in Christchurch.

Research shows people who struggle with reading and maths as teenagers suffer lasting disadvantage, especially if they are women or Māori.

Case numbers, "as expected", have continued to decline but it is not the time to get complacent, Ministry of Health Deputy Director-General Dr Andrew Old says.

Stoat footprints have been discovered on a previously predator free island in southwest Fiordland, triggering an incursion response from the Department of Conservation.

A sold out climate and business conference in Auckland has heard fears for the future expressed alongside optimism for business opportunities.

After severe flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Nelson last month, residents had the chance to put questions about sea level rise, climate change and their environmental concerns to those vying for the region's mayoralty.