A Wellington vet says hundreds of sick or injured pets could be missing out on treatment because of clinic closures and lack of staff.

The Gopala brand of paneer cheese is being recalled after listeria was found in testing following two cases of sickness.

Mediawatch - After more than two years the government has finally confirmed a new media outfit will replace TVNZ and RNZ. Colin Peacock looks at what's behind the public media plan.

A new species of large, extinct duck has been discovered at one of the country's richest fossil sites in St Bathans in Otago.

Desperate construction companies are poaching workers off each other at a destabilising rate.

The daily number of new community cases has dropped slightly today to 21,015 cases, but the number of people in hospital with the coronavirus continues to climb, rising to 773 today.

The Omicron outbreak has put a huge amount of pressure on the country's GPs, with many dealing with a 50 percent increase in workload and more abuse from some of the people they treat.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says the Ministry of Health will be changing how it reports Covid-19-related deaths from today.

RNZ and TVNZ will be subsidiaries of a new mega public media organisation, Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi has confirmed. Watch the announcement live here.

ACC has apologised to an abuse survivor after an employee breached her privacy by looking at her sensitive claim while investigating her husband for suspected fraud.

The arrival of the Novavax vaccine in Aotearoa won't change the Thames-Coromandel mayor's Covid-19 vaccination status.

Christchurch mosque massacre survivor Temel Atacocugu is being discharged from Timaru Hospital today and will continue his journey from Dunedin to Christchurch.

Serco has been criticised for using interns to write psychological reports for the Parole Board.

Auckland hospitals are dealing with far more Covid patients than they predicted in even their worst case scenarios.

A homicide investigation has been launched after a man was found dead at a rural property in Hope, near Nelson.

The head of a long-term dementia study hopes it will help to diagnose the disease before symptoms appear.

MIQ hotels could soon be sitting empty, as the government moves to shut down all but four of the country's 32 MIQ facilities by the end of June.

A Covid-19 wastewater researcher says the amount of the virus detected has been increasing rapidly with Auckland, Northland and the Bay of Plenty showing the highest levels.