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Other than one salmon found to be in "extremely poor health", all animals from EcoWorld Aquarium have been released or rehomed - even a stingray.

The Greens have laid down a challenge to potential coalition partners: come to the table with faster and stronger climate action if you want our support. Audio

A group called Dental for All is calling for the government to make dental care free for all adults.

The corpses of thousands of dead birds have piled up around the extensive mosaic of swamps, fens, bogs and open water between Waikato's Meremere and Te Kauwhata.

Parliament has a charming tendency to gift people with very odd job titles, like Shadow Leader of the House. Michael Woodhouse outlines what the job entails (and it's neither shade nor homes).

A near-capacity crowd of music fans has descended on the WOMAD festival of music and dance in Taranaki.

Lois Lawrence was hit as she stepped off a bus, and her daughter told her she looked as if she'd been bashed. Now she wants e-scooters banned.

Russia's forced deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators say.

Date pencilled in for Forum summit; PNG leader wants to expand cabinet; new flu vaccines in Samoa; and more

Auckland is set to have an A-League football club from next year.

Special sitting delayed by cyclones; Fiji schools re-opening; concerns over Fiji's debt; and more

Three more shipments are due to depart New Zealand shores in the next six weeks.

Campaigners for lowering of the voting age to 16 say the government is denying them human rights by delaying changes until the next term of government. Audio

The government is looking to remove unnecessary red tape that could prevent a streamlined recovery and rebuild following Cyclone Gabrielle.

Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionised the event with a radically different jumping technique, has died aged 76. Fosbury won gold in the high jump at the 1968...

The minister who lost the most in the government's second policy bonfire in just over a month insists it will not harm efforts to lower emissions.

Twitchers are recording more kererū, piwakawaka, and tūī in their backyards each year, according to the garden bird survey. Audio

The second set of government programmes to be cut, trimmed or delayed include the voting age, alcohol reform, a used container refund, and various transport projects.