The head of Tararua Health says he does not believe staffing levels at Dannevirke Community Hospital were unsafe before an audit was announced.

The Core Funding Programme has existed in different forms for more than two decades

Several new rules tomorrow may change how you drive. Here’s the scoop.

In February the rules were changed to give GPs and nurse practitioners the authority to diagnose and prescribe medicine for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults in an attempt to deal with a backlog of patients.

Councillors have voted to send the sludge to Winton landfill in Southland, rather than dump it on land near Lauder.

Oceania Rugby cancelled the event last Friday, pointing to lack of funding as the main reason for the decision.

The 56-foot boat was carrying 2000 litres of diesel and 60 litres of engine oil.

Pacific Island leaders pulled no punches on the climate crisis at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month.

Prosthetic eyes help move a stranger's attention from the eye loss to the person, says an Auckland eye doctor who has been crafting them for decades.

The Auckland site's contamination issues were well known but the offending continued, said the council.

Firearms, drugs and cash were also seized in what police were hailing as a significant disruption to a gang-linked cannabis supply chain.

The company plans to sell shares at $2.25 each, which would put its value at between $440 million and $465m.

The country's police chief says 27 statements have been taken as investigators track nearly 40kg of missing cocaine bars replaced with flour at the Suva High Court.

The charges relate to five complainants and date between 1996 to 2005.

The $5.5 billion project brought two new stations - Karanga-a-Hape and Te Waihorotiu - to the city centre, a redeveloped station at Mangawhau, and turned Waitematā station into two way thoroughfare.

Rainbow trout trucked up from Rotorua have been released by Fish and Game into the North Shore lake.

Fiji's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has issued a defensive statement clarifying its role in managing drug exhibits.

It’s largely unexplored - but scientists know the Wilkes Subglacial Basin is incredibly important for predicting the future.

Erika Rodrigues Coelho has not been seen or heard from in weeks, with her rental car found near Coronet Peak.

A woman was found dead at a house on Purchas St in Edgeware early on Wednesday.

A study says a New Zealand spaceport could help Europeans spread the risks of "weather, technical problems and geopolitics".

The full line-up has been released for the annual summer festival which plans to fill the newly minted Western Springs Bowl on 21 February, 2027.

The Northern Mariana Islands is losing about 1000 people a year because of a lack of economic opportunities, a senior Commonwealth official has told US federal officials.

Two people were found dead at separate addresses in the region on Tuesday.

The agriculture minister's advisers - including farmers and vets - have had "intense" and "robust" discussions around dairy welfare issues like tethering and mud.

Tourism leader credits warm local hospitality after taking out Oceania's Leading Island Destination for a fourth consecutive year at the 2026 World Travel Awards.

While average life expectancy across the Pacific as risen since the 1960, regional progress continues to trail global middle-income standards, according to regional experts.

The message from the longevity movement is ageing is something to defeat. But science tells a more complicated story.

Alarm over low youth voter enrolment

A paper presented at the Post Primary Teachers' Association conference says automated marking by artificial intelligence is on the rise.

The change in screening age from 58 to 56 is being rolled out region by region.

Fiji police confirm forensic tests reveal 39 cocaine bars held at Suva High Court were tampered with, as the country's justice minister asks the public to "trust" the police investigations.

Fisher Funds is in the process of merging its KiwiSaver funds, and says a small number of its investors will end up paying higher fees.

Police say the drugs were being held in a High Court exhibit room.

Rhonda Zielinski is a frontline worker in New Zealand's fight against meth, and she can be brutally honest.

Tauranga City Council's chief executive Marty Grenfell has been under fire since a review found the January landslide at Mount Maunganui that killed six people was preventable.

More than 55 job checks and visitor visas were auto-approved before the fault was discovered last year.

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine says annual ED presentations are up 21 percent from 2015-16, despite population growth of only 13 percent.

Papua New Guiea's prime minister has urged the international community to prioritise humanity ahead of war.

Big tech developers need to be pressured to issue faster warnings about AI breakout hacks, says a cyber security expert.

Earlier this year the difficult and expensive plan was put in the basket of "longer term" road projects.

The mental health minister has acknowledged the region's sole detox facility's wait time, but says there are other places people can go for help.

Diesel is used to power much of the country's industry and transport so any price increase can flow through to a wide range of areas including food.

The hospital's nurses spoke out earlier about how they were struggling in an emergency department that sometimes had triple the number of patients it was staffed to deal with.