Health Minister Simeon Brown says it will take pressure off the rest of the health system, especially our overburdened EDs.

Ten thousand New Zealanders may have lost vision – sometimes permanently – because of toxoplasmosis, an infection triggered ...

Here's a question for your Monday morning.  If somebody came up to you on the street and asked for DOB, next of kin, phone ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will be joined by Finance Minister Nicola Willis at his post-Cabinet press conference today.

A person trapped in their vehicle as an armed group began smashing it with weapons, made a panicked call to Hawke’s Bay ...

Police have restrained more than $650,000 in assets, after the arrest of a man allegedly involved in a cryptocurrency scam as ...

Following another dramatic police chase making the weekend headlines, the Afternoons team raise the question over whether ...

Detective Senior Sergeant Michelle Harris of Whangārei Criminal Investigation Branch said a portal had been set up for ...

Students with mental health issues are turning to distance learning at correspondence school, Te Kura. Enrolments have ...

An Auckland businessman is facing up to 10 years in prison for claiming more than $1.8 million to fund his luxury lifestyle in one of the country’s largest ...

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) It Never Goes This Way/When the Big Story Is Boring ...

A Canterbury Catholic priest took his own life after 50 years in the clergy as his mental health deteriorated and financial ...