The Christmas chaos is well underway for NZ Post and cut off for sending Christmas parcels is inching closer.

As preparation for the next election ramped up, Jan Logie said it was time she announced she wouldn't be standing again.

The Chief Ombudsman is uneasy about the way OIA requests are being handled and intends finding out if ministers are hampering the free flow of information.

The government has announced a Royal Commission into the government's Covid-19 response and the PM and Covid-19 Response Minister are holding a post-Cabinet media briefing.

A land-based whitebait farming operation is being trialled in Southland with an aim of ramping up production to enter the market.

Earlier this year, NZ recorded the largest-ever sponge bleaching event off its southern coastline - with major repercussions likely for the ecosystem.

Multiple agencies are searching for a person who failed to return from a free-dive in the Karaka Bay area.

There have been 34,528 new cases of Covid-19 and 40 deaths of people with the virus over the past week, the Ministry of Health says.

A Gisborne rail bridge cannot be used by the city's iconic vintage steam train, but for how long it has been unsafe remains a mystery.

The Health and Disability Commissioner found him in breach of standards in place to protect the public.

Investigators say a 2800ha fire that forced more than 30 Northland families out of their homes for days last year was accidental.

Fish and Game New Zealand's chairperson Ray Grubb has resigned amid an independent investigation into allegations of bullying behaviour.

It is just weeks from Christmas but Kāinga Ora is emptying out its infamous Dixon Street Flats in Wellington because they are "old and no longer fit for purpose".

Allegations of neglect in a home for the disabled involving a "critically unwell" woman blindsided Whaikaha, the Ministry of Disabled People, which is now seeking an explanation.

Ukrainan refugees who could barely say the English alphabet upon arrival in Aotearoa have since learned enough to get jobs.

Wayne Brown says the average household will pay an extra $154 in mid-2023 if his suggested 4.6 percent rise is accepted.

An 18-year-old man accused of stabbing a Christchurch dog-walker who later died in hospital is now facing a murder charge.

The stories of abuse inflicted on disabled and neurodiverse people have been released today in a study by the Abuse in Care inquiry highlighting repeated failures by carers to protect them.