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The upper North Island is in for a wild and wet night as a large weather system moves across the region.

A lab worker somewhere in New Zealand will process the country's two-millionth Covid-19 test in the coming week. Audio

A former Olympian, coach and general manager of a top gymnastics club says some coaches are feeling "battered and bruised" after a wide-ranging review into the sport.

Fiji has recorded its second Covid-19 case in the community.

The National Party is defending its role in the Transmission Gully, following a scathing review that found the project was flawed from the get-go.

The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis policeman accused of killing George Floyd last year, has retired to consider its verdict.

Opinion - There's no justification for staging the Tokyo Olympic Games amid the Covid-19 pandemic, nor 150,000 condoms sent to athletes amid social distancing, Hamish Bidwell writes.

Hundreds of East Coast teenagers will now get dental check-ups, but a school principal says she should not have had to fight for the free service for the last 20 years.

Patients requesting euthanasia will be given unapproved, unregulated and "off label" medicines, sparking warnings of prolonged and distressing deaths.

An urgent DHB-wide review is being called for to understand why rangatahi Māori are far more likely to die after significant trauma than non-Māori.

New housing price figures show the average price of entry-level houses in Ruapehu has increased by more than 70 percent in the last year.

Report co-author Peter Wilson says although low-skilled migrants fill labour shortages and boost businesses' production, they do not necessarily increase productivity overall.

New Plymouth District Council is at a loss to explain the timing of its flip-flop over its support for a composting plant which has stockpiled 20,000 tonnes of contaminated waste.

The Detail - The shift in public media is being mulled over by a government-appointed group. But is such a unification desirable, or even necessary?

Fijian-Indians living in New Zealand are opposing moves by the government to classify them as Asians and not Pacific Islanders.