James Cameron's plans to convert his Wairarapa properties into organic veggie farms appear to have fallen short - with hundreds of cows now understood to be grazing in his paddocks.

Laura Hume says it was only after her health began deteriorating that she found out she was one of thousands of people who had been switched to a generic drug in a cost saving drive by Pharmac.

Māori King Kiingi Tuheitia, along with an entourage from his iwi Waikato Tainui, were in the High Court at Auckland today to listen to evidence being presented on an overlapping treaty claims case.

From May next year the campus will take students from eight schools who will get their hands dirty with everything from conducting experiments to growing vegetables and rearing chickens.

Of the adverse reactions - among the first 15,000 doses administered - three were serious, and the common adverse reactions were dizziness, headache, nausea and fainting.

When moa bones were found 3m deep in the earth during a road construction project, it was heralded as a discovery of great significance.

The government body charged with attracting foreign students is warning MPs it will take 10 years to rebuild the $5 billion-a-year international education industry.

More than 100 New Zealand pilots will return to the cockpit when the trans-Tasman travel bubble opens.

Stay, go or slide it down the road? Frank Film looks at the last ditch effort to save a heritage building from the footprint of Christchurch's new multi-arena stadium.

Social services are on site at an emergency housing facility in central Wellington today where a baby has died, and police say that so far, there's no indication of suspicious circumstances.

Andrew Little this morning had his first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus immunisation as part of the government's push to promote the jab's safety.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says all New Zealand's district health boards are now operating vaccination programmes, and vaccine numbers are likely to increase further.

Air New Zealand is advertising daily commercial flights to the Cook Islands, ahead of any official travel-bubble announcement.

The police watchdog has found an officer used excessive force when he wrapped his arm round a man's neck while he was being released on bail.

The identity and final resting place of Captain Ernest Charles Parry, who was buried in Belgium, has finally been solved.

New Zealanders planning to head to Australia when quarantine-free travel resumes will first need a crash course in how Australia's tracing system works.

A depressed woman whose baby died was denied help from Perinatal Mental Health Services - and other mothers in extreme distress say they can't get treatment via their DHBs or ACC.

The imminent travel bubble has brought relief for separated families, and travellers who believe they'll be safer using air travel 'green zones' than stopping off in MIQ.