An epidemiologist just honoured for his role as a pandemic evidence-broker is urging Kiwis to avoid becoming part of a summer wave of the virus.

Opinion - This week's Supreme Court judgment on lowering New Zealand's legal voting age has, at times, been interpreted as some kind of mandate for change. That's not quite the case, but the court's ruling does at least make change a possibilit...

Thousands of photos that document eight decades of Aotearoa's sporting and social history need a permanent home, Peter Bush's family says.

National is ignoring the weight of evidence against enforced military-style camps for young offenders, according to a lawyer who has represented survivors of some of NZ's worst cases of abuse in state care.

Opinion - My eyes were opened to the horror and helplessness our vulnerable people and health workers face at emergency departments, writes a mother* who battled to get her daughter treated with vital IV antibiotics.

The Gore District mayor is no longer asking the council to cover the travel costs for his private personal assistant.

The top 10 dog names in New Zealand have been tallied, and there's not a Rufus to be seen.

Rotorua's mayor has expressed concern a Kāinga Ora submission on a proposed district plan change could lead to six-storey buildings being zoned outside of the inner city.

The victim of a stabbing at a Christchurch park on 14 November has died in hospital today.

The Invercargill City Council has voted to fast-track building of the new Southland Museum and Art Gallery.

Archives NZ is making its online search tool available to all users again, after a shutdown caused by restricted record titles mistakenly being made public.

Port Marlborough says the welfare of EcoWorld's animals remains its top priority and "specialist" staff have been contracted to assist them when they take over the site next month.

A woman has been charged with murder after an infant's death in Silverdale last week.

A man has been charged with theft after thermal imaging equipment was used to kill livestock in Canterbury.

A joint iwi-council bid to build a multipurpose community and sports centre in Manāia is a step closer to reality.

A renters' advocacy group says the healthy homes extension means more renters will end up in hospital with "totally preventable" illnesses from cold, damp homes.

Despite best efforts to find Ryder Ferregel the search more than two-week long search has been unsuccessful, police say.

The woman took her ill teenage daughter to Wellington Hospital's emergency department as an infection spiralled out of control and found herself 53rd in the queue, with tired staff struggling to cope with the mayhem.