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Pacific leaders raised the issue at the United Nations General Assembly last month, warning non-communicable diseases is at "crisis level" in the Pacific.

An immunisation expert hopes New Zealand will soon get a nasal spray flu vaccine, like the UK already has and Australia is rolling out soon. Audio

A round-up of news from around the region, including concerns about rheumatic heart disease in Fiji.

The New Zealand Media Council has upheld a complaint against RNZ over its online article titled "Teenager starves to death alone in emergency accommodation", published on 12 June 2025.

The plan calls for a ceasefire, the release of hostages and disarmament by Hamas, the gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a post-war transitional authority headed by Trump himself.

The new system will be implemented in the South Island on Wednesday, as part of a series of improvements to the aged care system.

A new tripartite agreement for the Port of Auckland signals a turnaround for a workplace long dogged by controversy, including debt, delays and death.

Health workers thought Majd Alshaghnobi was dead after shrapnel tore through his face in February 2024.

There are also several new locations of interest, primarily in Queenstown and Cromwell, but also in Northland, following ongoing contact tracing efforts.

New figures showed 86.3 percent nationally now receive cancer treatment within a month, but wait times for some districts had gone backwards. Audio

White House meeting aimed at heading off a government shutdown appears to have made little progress.

A mobile health clinic has been set up at Waitangi's Te Tii Marae after four cases of measles in Northland.

Canterbury, Waikato and Southland had the highest amounts of contamination.

But other conservation programmes were also relying on that same funding.

The government is touting it as an end to more than a decade of confusion.