The country's police chief says 27 statements have been taken as investigators track nearly 40kg of missing cocaine bars replaced with flour at the Suva High Court.

Pacific Island leaders pulled no punches on the climate crisis at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month.

The Northern Mariana Islands is losing about 1000 people a year because of a lack of economic opportunities, a senior Commonwealth official has told US federal officials.

The Fiji-based franchise is tightening spending, including pausing plans to seek additional private investment, to ensure the club says financially viable.

Oceania Rugby cancelled the event last Friday, pointing to lack of funding as the main reason for the decision.

The head of Tararua Health says he does not believe staffing levels at Dannevirke Community Hospital were unsafe before an audit was announced.

The Core Funding Programme has existed in different forms for more than two decades

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In February the rules were changed to give GPs and nurse practitioners the authority to diagnose and prescribe medicine for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults in an attempt to deal with a backlog of patients.

Councillors have voted to send the sludge to Winton landfill in Southland, rather than dump it on land near Lauder.