Just weeks out from finishing their degrees, nursing students say they are at breaking point. One's advice to others considering the course: "Stay away from it".

The founder of a popular parenting website says education is just as important outside school as it is inside and she has no problem giving her kids mental health days off class.

A multi-million dollar fund is now available for innovative tourism projects to help the industry become more sustainable and resilient.

The defence counsel for the older of two Whangārei brothers accused of murder says his client accepts committing manslaughter, but not murder.

The Ministry of Health's latest analysis of Covid-19 shows rising infections, hospitalisations, and likely increasing deaths in the near future.

The principal of an Auckland intermediate school has confirmed a Year 8 student died on its grounds this week.

An eyewitness who saw a man hold several people hostage at BNZ in Rotorua says the scene was like something from a movie.

A hybrid solution for an eroding coastal road has been rubber-stamped by Masterton District Council.

A leading expert on climate refugees says the world needs to come to grips with the issue to avoid chaos at countries' borders.

Some of the country's top chefs and food writers have contributed to RNZ's culinary heritage, which is now the inspiration for a new cookbook.

The search for a kayaker missing on the Firth of Thames has been suspended for the day.

A nearly $300,000 resilience project to ensure the West Coast is strategically connected in the event of a full-scale civil defence emergency is ramping up.

With staff shortages still common, the Employers and Manufacturers Association says the government could increase the workforce by granting an amnesty to those who had outstayed their visas.

"The clock is ticking" - that was Auckland Mayor's message to the council as they met today to discuss solutions to a $270 million deficit in the proposed 2023-2024 Annual Budget.

School attendance hit a new low in the second term with just 39.9 percent of children going to school regularly.

Details of a father-daughter relationship were laid before the family court by the mother, who said a step-parent declaration was necessary because she needed financial support if her daughter was going to keep going to a private school.

A landlord who was challenged about fixing her leaky rental retaliated by trying to evict the family who had spent a year living in a damp home.

Police say they have identified the body found in the Auckland Harbour last night.