Economist Shamubeel Eaqub and others agree it's time to reframe housing as a human rights crisis and say the solution demands the same political will shown after World War II.

Disabled people in relationships are paying for the price of love - losing their allowances because they are coupled up.

There are concerns the country's first ever mass vaccination event did not attract vulnerable and vaccine-hestitant groups.

A review to be discussed tomorrow has found one Dunedin Hospital ward was regularly understaffed by 20 percent or more during day shifts between July 2018 and October 2020.

With a future so bright she may need to keep wearing her shades, shot putter Maddison-Lee Wesche placed sixth in her final on Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics.

Forest & Bird is seeking a judicial review over Southland District Council's decision to allow coal mine exploration by Bathurst Resources.

A fiery clash between a National Party MP and an irate climate change cynic raised the temperature of an Ashburton public meeting today.

Nurses have formally declared they will walk off the job again in just over two weeks.

Auckland man David Willetts has travelled overseas for potentially life extending medical care, but is in limbo about when, or, if he'll be able to secure a MIQ space, despite having a return ticket.

There are no new cases of Covid-19 in the community and four new cases in managed isolation and quarantine facilities today.

The Transport Agency plans to fill in roosts of long-tail bats along the route of a proposed bypass on State Highway 3, in an effort to force the critically-endangered mammals to relocate.

Police computer systems have been ill-prepared to cope with a disaster like a major hack.

A community on the North Island's west coast is battling against proposals to ramp up snapper fishing in the area.

A three-day mass vaccination event wrapped up in South Auckland last night with more than 15,500 people given their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

The Chief Human Rights Commissioner says for generations governments have promised to create the conditions to enable everyone to live in a decent home, but that has not happened.

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck the central North Island overnight has been classified as light because it registered at a depth of 160km.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today gave a formal and unreserved apology on behalf of the government for the Dawn Raids which she said left Pacific communities feeling "targeted and terrorised".

Education officials have warned their ministers that students are "falling through the cracks" because the curriculum does not clearly signal when they need more support.