The medical laboratory science sector has delivered a "document of crisis" to the health minister, warning of serious consequences for the entire health system if workers' concerns are not addressed.

As food prices continue to rise, some are skipping meals, juggling two jobs and losing sleep as they struggle to get by.

It's time to rebuild the devastated foreign student industry, Minister of Education Chris Hipkins says - but it needs to diversify too.

DGL's board has launched an independent review of the firm's culture, following the chief executive's offensive remarks about chef Nadia Lim.

A woman sent fake bomb threats to Otago University to stop her parents from finding out she wasn't graduating.

Child welfare experts say locking up offending kids will not stop a spate of ram raids.

The Hamilton City Council has voted to demolish the Founders Theatre after a lengthy debate.

A group of Wellington City councillors have failed in their bid for the council to take a public stance against the expansion plans for the capital's airport.

One of three people arrested today over the unlawful occupation of Parliament is facing charges relating to the lighting of fires.

A petition asking for a ban on single-use takeaway containers was delivered to Parliament earlier today.

New research shows the pandemic has hit Pacific students harder than others, but many schools are successfully addressing the problem, an educational leader says.

A leading cardiologist is hoping to show health service spending benefits of delivering free groceries to those recovering from health attacks.

Another nine people with Covid-19 have died while there are 9392 new community cases today, the Ministry of Health says.

Work has begun today to resolve the smell of rotting material at the Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Queenstown locals are putting up their hands - and picking up dish cloths - to help as businesses brace for a busy winter with staff thin on the ground.

Residents have won a major battle against McCallum Bros, Auckland's biggest supplier of sand for concrete, with a resource consent application to take more sand off a beach north of the city rejected.

Doug Caldwell was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to jazz music in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2006.

Some schools are fed up with the decile system that allocates more than $150 million per year based on enrolments of children from poor neighbourhoods.