New Zealand should reduce drinking water nitrate limits from 11.3mg/L to 1mg/L to curb bowel cancer, the country's second-highest cause of cancer death, a specialist says.

Two heavily disguised men with a baseball bat and a shotgun burst into the tavern late on a Saturday in 1987, shot the publican dead and emptied the safe. Now two men are on trial.

Air NZ chief executive Greg Foran has confirmed to RNZ's Checkpoint the contract and work on engines for Saudi military is terminated.

MIQ nurses insist they are sometimes working around the clock, despite the Covid-19 Response Minister saying there is no evidence of that.

A convicted man has won his appeal in the Supreme Court to have his name struck off the Child Sex Offender Register.

A jury has been selected for the trial of a man charged with sexual offences against teenage boys nearly 20 years ago.

A tenants' advocacy group says renters are increasingly having their tenancies prematurely ended, as landlords make moves before new rules set in.

Hawke's Bay has had a spate of suspicious scrub fires with about seven blazes in two weeks, local firefighters say.

The 58-year-old has been charged with assault and operating a vessel dangerously following an altercation at Tairua Wharf last month.

Increased demand for trades and health training has boosted enrolments at Manukau Institute of Technology by more than 70 percent compared to last year.

The Ministry of Health says neither of the two new cases are connected to the managed isolation facility at the Pullman Hotel.

The discovery of clothing near a Wellington beach has sparked a search for a man seen entering the water there at 9pm last night - around the time the clothing was found.

Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran claims the decision to work a contract for the Saudi Arabian military was nothing but a case of poor judgement, and appears to be rejecting the idea of an independent inquiry into the matter.

Tired and stressed MIQ nurses fear there will be another Covid-19 community outbreak if staffing numbers aren't boosted at facilities across the country.

A man who sold over half a tonne of rock lobster on the black market has been sentenced to eight months home detention and can't fish for three years.

From this afternoon, residents of Karitane and Waikouaiti will be offered blood tests for chronic lead exposure after people were told not to drink the tap water because lead was detected in the reservoir.

Chris Bush was shot dead at the Red Fox Tavern in Maramarua in 1987.

A specialist medicinal cannabis GP clinic in Wellington is hoped to help stop some people running afoul of the law by buying off the black market.