Search Results

Lifeline Aotearoa says calls and texts to its helpline have skyrocketed in the past 18 months - up 88 percent compared to 2019.

The national Down Syndrome Association is offering its support to anyone from the community who may be feeling vulnerable following the death of Auckland woman Lena Zhang Harrap. Audio

Another long lockdown in Auckland is making it harder for seniors to avoid loneliness - and social isolation was already a major problem before the Covid-19 pandemic.

The members' bills that flew through Parliament this week, and those that failed; including bills on disability dogs, autonomous sanctions and local body conflicts of interest.

Russian travel agencies are selling package tours for Russians to receive foreign Covid-19 vaccines abroad amid frustration among some Russians that their domestically produced vaccines have not been…

The city is already at 80 percent but those on the ground say the next 10 percent will be more challenging and will take some creative thinking.

A small Waikato community is waiting anxiously for hundreds of Covid-19 test results to come back today.

Opinion - China's level of anger at the new Aukus defence pact between Australia, the UK and the US was only to be expected. France's was not, Geoffrey Miller writes.

As Auckland waits to hear if it will move down an alert level this week, the prime minister assured the country the level four lockdown is working, even with a small rise in cases the past two days.

As the lockdown in Auckland lengthened, the exposure of one couple’s rule-breaking prompted a predictably intense pile-on. Ironically, that actually helped to keep their names out of the headlines -…

Lockdowns and restrictions have pushed some families and groups to the bone financially, and the government needs to offer better support, social support groups say.

The Auckland terrorist's immigration history is a glaring omission in the review of events leading to the 3 September attacks, National says.

Australia's new security pact with the US and the UK has touched a nerve at the core of Pacific regionalism.

The proposed law banning conversion therapy practices is not strong enough, some submitters have argued, and needs work to ensure it will do what it aims to.

Māori health leaders in Auckland say today's roll-out of buses and mobile clinics are part of a long-overdue vaccination outreach programme tailored to the needs of their communities. Audio

Vaccine "passports" or certificates are increasingly seen as key to avoid lockdowns, but use of such measures pose dangers and raise social issues.