Port of Tauranga workers are angry they were brought back to work after being in contact with a ship with Covid-19 infected crew members, Maritime Union says.

Timaru police are emphasising the need for safety as the friends of the five teens killed in a crash at the weekend plan a car meet-up in their honour.

The number of Māori and Pacific people vaccinated against Covid-19 remains well down on the rest of the population and health groups are concerned.

Midwives in Auckland and Northland walked off the job and onto the streets today kicking off consecutive days of rolling strikes across the country.

A woman with cancer had a relapse of hepatitis and required a liver transplant as a result of failures by CCDHB, the Health and Disability Commissioner says.

It's the cheap deal that could cost you dearly. Police say stolen gas heating systems being sold on the web are often damaged and could cause an explosion.

Physiotherapy clients are facing delays getting treatment following the roll out of ACC's new case management system, physiotherapists say.

A decades old power line degraded to the point it caused widespread power outages and shut down the highway into Queenstown late last month.

The Ministry of Health says testing at the Port of Tauranga is under way for workers who had contact with a container ship where 11 of 21 crew tested positive for Covid-19.

Snow has closed state highways as the bitterly cold weather moves across central New Zealand.

A $74 million restructure of the way ACC manages claims has left staff with 'overwhelming caseloads,' a survey has found.

A Hastings man's attempt to have his slavery and people trafficking convictions overturned has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal.

Trauma specialists will be in Timaru today providing support for school students who knew the teenagers killed on Saturday night.

Crew members aboard a container ship currently at sea off the coast of Tauranga have tested positive for Covid 19.

People who can't get their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine within the recommended period shouldn't worry, says vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris.

Midwives in Auckland and Northland will be the first to walk off the job today as consecutive days of rolling strikes around the country kick off.

New research has found that many who were sanctioned went without necessities such as food and medications, and often did not know they could challenge the decision.

In the past three months, there have been a dozen reports of stolen califonts, most in the Counties Manukau area.