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A founding member of a new migrants service organisation is calling for workers to speak up if they're treated unfairly and employers to stop exploitation.

Mandatory testing of international replacement maritime workers will begin rolling out next week, the Health Minister says.

In today's sports news - Manchester City and Chelsea win in EPL, Hazard breaks goal-scoring drought and Bottas pips Hamilton in F1.

A repatriation flight to the Marshall Islands went ahead despite community calls to keep the borders closed following the two confirmed cases of Covid-19 in quarantine.

The euthanasia referendum has passed the public vote, with 65.2 percent voting in favour, but the cannabis question has 53.1 percent voting 'no' so far, preliminary results show.

Analysis - The Australian bushfires royal commission's final report issues a stark warning for the future.

Opinion - New Zealanders have sadly chosen to continue cannabis supply from the black market rather than government regulated shops after the referendum results today, writes Dr Graham Gulbransen.

Overseas investors were barred from turning Marlborough farmland into forest after a minister questioned its benefits.

Despite a legal battle, the names of those charged in the NZ First Foundation fraud case remain suppressed. As Guyon Espiner reports, the foundation has been shrouded in secrecy from the start.

An investigative journalist who has extensively written about how Māori children end up in state care has told the Waitangi Tribunal that Oranga Tamariki are the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff…

The former medical company Promisia Integrative is now a player in the aged care sector after successfully acquiring three facilities in the North Island and leasing a fourth in the South Island.

The shearing industry is nervously waiting to find out if it will be able to bring in overseas shearers to help this season.

West Coasters are worried their rivers may be closed to whitebaiting as part of a proposal about to go to the incoming Minister of Conservation. Audio

A Twitter bot has been working to find and combat abusive tweets aimed at female candidates in the New Zealand elections.

Increasing numbers of queer and trans young people are unable to access emergency accommodation during Auckland's level 3 lockdown, RainbowYOUTH says.