National coverage from across Aotearoa.
Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston has announced a national service dog ID card, saying the standardised card should reduce confusion when certified disability assistance dog teams access public places, businesses and public transport.
Funding will create safe backup populations for Hamilton's frog and the white-bellied skink, two native species found nowhere else in the world and now at serious risk of extinction.
Education Minister Erica Stanford says the School Onsite Training Programme will expand to 704 places a year from 2028, part of a $21.7 million five-year investment aimed at producing more classroom-ready teachers.
Health Minister Simeon Brown says more New Zealanders will be able to have suspicious skin spots and moles checked and removed at local GP clinics under the first stage of a $23 million community healthcare investment.
Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston has appointed Rahera Turner, Thora Huebner and Joanne Witko to the New Zealand Sign Language Board, adding new members as the board works through delivery of a 10-year NZSL strategy.
Transport Minister Chris Bishop has confirmed the Government has signed the public-private partnership agreement for Warkworth to Te Hana, moving the first section of the Northland Expressway from procurement into delivery.
NZ Ambulance Association national secretary Mark Quin says Palmerston North Hospital's overloaded emergency department left ambulance patients waiting one to two hours to be handed into hospital care.
Dunedin families are facing the practical and emotional consequences of Wakari Hospital's Ward 10A closure, with some high-needs patients expected to be moved to facilities in the North Island.
Education Minister Erica Stanford has confirmed the updated National Curriculum for Years 0-10 will be released by 9 September 2026, with Science and Social Sciences arriving first on 12 August so they can be in use from 2027.
Rideshare lost property teams say the strangest items left behind in New Zealand cars go well beyond phones and wallets — false teeth included.
A wrap of the five stories that shaped the news day across New Zealand and abroad on Tuesday, 30 June.
Most New Zealand households have recorded an average 8 percent increase in power bills this winter, adding another pressure point to household budgets already dealing with fuel, food and mortgage costs.
A ute has become stuck after a section of road gave way in Dunedin, prompting contractors to close the street for repairs.
A wrap of the five stories that shaped the news day across New Zealand and abroad on Monday, 29 June.
An Auckland family is fundraising for treatment after a father was diagnosed with a brain tumour weeks before the birth of twins.
A family has described a near miss after a truck tyre struck their car on an Auckland motorway.
A 75-year-old cancer survivor says she felt helpless after companies found to have misused a confidential support-database for advertising could not pay the full damages ordered.
A national newsroom is only as strong as the local threads it weaves. Here's how we think about reporting across Aotearoa.
Trades, university, apprenticeships, polytechnics, work — the choices are wider than the conversation often suggests.
Distance, workforce and continuity of care shape what 'access' actually means in regional New Zealand.
Investigators have found the Aratere's crew were not fully trained in a new steering system before the Interislander ferry ran aground.
The five stories that shaped Thursday, from politics and the courts to the biggest developments overseas.
A victim of deepfake pornography has spoken out about the harm caused by AI-generated sexual imagery, and about a legal system still catching up to it.
The five stories that shaped Wednesday, from the Reserve Bank's rate call to developments overseas.
Economists expect the Reserve Bank to hold the official cash rate today, but attention has already shifted to whether a July hike is on the table.
A new show is asking whether it is acceptable for non-Māori to perform haka, examining where cultural sharing ends and appropriation begins.
A wrap of the five biggest stories from around New Zealand and the world on Tuesday, May 26.
ASB says the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is delivering a cost shock that reaches well beyond the price at the petrol pump.
A wrap of the five biggest stories from around New Zealand and the world on Monday, May 25.
A nurse has described being stabbed, burned and held captive by a patient, in an account that has renewed concern about violence against health workers.
A round-up of the day's main stories from across New Zealand and abroad.
The mother of Kyle Whorrall has visited New Zealand a year after his death, saying grief does not go away, it simply changes shape.
The exodus of New Zealand police officers to Australia is growing, with senior figures conceding they simply cannot match the pay on offer across the Tasman.
What began as back pain for a young dancer became a 12-year cancer battle, and she is now seeking treatment overseas.
A round-up of the day's main stories from across New Zealand and abroad.
A round-up of the day's main stories from across New Zealand and abroad.
Dame Jacinda Ardern has reflected on a television interview question she described as unacceptable, almost a decade after it was put to her.
A round-up of the day's main stories from across New Zealand and abroad.
New figures show how often New Zealanders put the wrong things in the recycling bin, and how many face penalties for it.
A round-up of the day's main stories from across New Zealand and abroad.
Researchers are warning of a brain drain following a round of science job cuts, saying skilled staff will leave the country rather than wait for funding to return.
Comedian Dai Henwood has spoken about undergoing 51 rounds of chemotherapy and how living with terminal cancer changed his relationship with death.
New Zealand's foreign minister returned to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, a familiar stage for a politician who has represented the country there across several decades.
A round-up of the five stories that shaped the day across New Zealand and the wider world.
Public toilet seats have an enduring reputation as a health hazard, but microbiologists say the risk of infection from sitting on one is very low.
The day's five biggest stories, pulled together for readers catching up in the evening.
Customs officers are intercepting growing volumes of illicit tobacco arriving in freight, mail and passenger luggage.
Thursday's five biggest stories across news, politics, business and sport.
The day's headlines condensed into 90 seconds for readers on the move.
Wellington is weighing an upgrade to its Snapper ticketing system as the national public transport ticketing rollout runs behind schedule.
A round-up of the day's main stories from across New Zealand and abroad.
Trailer-mounted speed cameras are appearing on New Zealand roadsides as the transport agency expands automated enforcement.
A round-up of the day's main stories from across New Zealand and abroad.
Tesla's self-driving assistance technology has launched in New Zealand, described by one early user as cruise control on steroids.
Job advertisements have climbed for a third consecutive month while applications per role have hit record highs, according to the latest Seek data.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Monday, 15 September 2025.
Police are investigating after a man was found with serious unexplained injuries at a rural property west of Queenstown.
Career advisers spend a lot of time telling people not to lie on a CV. The subtler point is that complete, unfiltered honesty is not the goal either.
The end of the Tom Phillips saga left a small Waikato community sifting through nearly four years of division.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Thursday, 11 September 2025.
About 13,000 patients received inaccurate diabetes laboratory results after a testing error, health authorities have confirmed.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Wednesday, 10 September 2025.
The police officer shot during the confrontation that ended the search for Tom Phillips faces a long recovery, colleagues say.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Tuesday, 9 September 2025.
Animal welfare advocates want a proposed Wairarapa cat bylaw strengthened, arguing the current draft does not go far enough to reduce the number of unwanted kittens.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Monday, 8 September 2025.
Brian Tamaki and Destiny Church have been part of New Zealand public life for more than two decades, but the tone has changed. What was once provocation has hardened into something closer to open confrontation.
Headline inflation has settled back inside the Reserve Bank's target band, yet the weekly supermarket shop still feels punishing for many households. The gap between the official numbers and the lived experience is not imagination: it is arithmetic.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Monday, 1 September 2025.
Voting opened in the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election, called to replace Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp, who died in June.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Tuesday, 2 September 2025.
Decades of dietary advice have focused on cutting fat, salt or sugar, yet obesity and diet-related illness keep rising. Researchers increasingly think the problem is that nutrition science has been looking at a very small part of what we actually eat.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Wednesday, 3 September 2025.
Delayed onset muscle soreness usually appears twelve to twenty-four hours after a hard session, peaks somewhere between one and three days later, and fades within three to five days.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Thursday, 4 September 2025.
Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po delivered her first royal address on day four of Koroneihana, ending a year of public silence observed in keeping with tikanga following the death of Kīngi Tūheitia.
A round-up of the day's main developments across New Zealand on Friday, 5 September 2025.
John Campbell reported from Tūrangawaewae as Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po gave her first speech as Māori Queen, and found a marae full of people who felt they were watching something begin.
A select committee of MPs is pushing for a law change to remove a citizenship barrier affecting some children of parents born outside marriage.