One hospital is seeing a fourfold increase in flu patients, while hundreds of health workers are out sick due to winter illness.

The crash which killed seven people from one family has left whānau needing support, say a church some members attended.

Seven search warrants, four in Auckland and three in Christchurch, were carried out on Tuesday morning.

ACT, Greens, National and the Māori Party have called for the bill to be halted.

Options for fixes for Hutt Hospital's quake-prone building include prefab structures, a rebuild on the same site, or a build in the centre of the grounds.

One North Canterbury intersection has been the scene of 25 crashes since 2000. Craig Wright was involved in one of them, and he's willing to pay to prevent any more.

Owners of shoddy empty central Christchurch blocks will have to lift their game or pay the price as the city council adopts its 2022/23 annual budget.

The Tasting Shed, which closed earlier this month due to the Covid-19 pandemic, owes money to more than 50 creditors.

The dog attacked a vet during a visit to her clinic, but the defence claims the vet approached too quickly.

Nicola Sara Watts, 36, set up fake email addresses, social media accounts and sent a letter from prison in an effort to blame her for her crimes.

An extension of the Arras tunnel and a new Mount Victoria tunnel will come heavy with embedded carbon emission, and take no more than 10 minutes off a car trip.

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Ancestral stories of local iwi will help to underpin the future education of Marlborough youth.

Last year, MSD relaxed its rule suspending superannuation payments to pensioners stranded in Australia by Covid-19. Now this has been extended to all.

A new scholarship marking the University of Canterbury’s 150th birthday will give 300 students from poorer backgrounds the chance to study at university.

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If there is a serious crash in central New Plymouth on Tuesday, and someone has to be cut free from a vehicle, the jaws of life will arrive in the back of a ute.

Hokonui Rūnanga is blending Mātauranga Māori with western conservation practices to cultivate the next generation of kaitiaki in Southland.

Though flaws in the consultation did not undermine the overall process, the Chief Ombudsman agreed that it was unreasonable to expect the public to realise that Kākā Valley was in the Maitai.