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A report recommends consolidating smaller government departments, including the ministries for Pacific Peoples, Ethnic Communities, and Women, to improve efficiency.

Numbers cutting back on fresh fruit and vegetables increased from 23.3 percent to 47.7 percent in five years, according to a new report.

The council says the water supply carries risk of contamination, but residents say the water quality hasn't changed. Audio

"I appear to be living rent-free inside Donald Trump's head," Sadiq Khan says after the US president's UN speech.

Jeremy McMinn says the situation is dire and when he returns to work on Thursday, he will be working for a 48-hour stretch covering three other missing doctors.

Former world number three Elina Svitolina says she is ending her season because she is not in the "right emotional space" to continue.

The jury deciding the fate of the man who lit the fatal Loafers Lodge blaze has been deliberating for eight hours so far.

A researcher studying the long-term health effects is calling for vapes to be made prescription only.

Early last year the town was demanding action due to a more biological stench of human waste.

The report warns unchanged policy would lead to debt rising to around 200 percent of GDP by 2065.

The new study looked at data from nearly 560,000 people who participated.

A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the Tongan king and queen visiting Australia.

Three New Zealanders are developing dementia every hour, according to alarming new research from Auckland University.

The Samoan PM says his leg was injured in preparations for the 29 August polls, and the "trip for treatment was long overdue". Audio

One popular online retailer recently suspended sales of melatonin to Australia, after reports of a jump in calls to the WA Poisons Information Centre about children taking melatonin.

The DNA Drive Project is collecting insects by swabbing any DNA traces that remain after insects collide with car licence plates. Audio

Robust studies are "very clear" there is no link between its use during pregnancy and autism in children, the college says.

A broken teleprompter was the first ominous sign as the US president attacked his allies about everything from climate action and immigration to Ukraine and elevators in an hour-long speech.

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