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A Palmerston North school wants to change school lunch providers after a child bit into a hard piece of plastic in their lunch. Audio

Parliament's Justice Committee has recommended the Treaty Principles Bill go no further, but David Seymour says he is not giving up.

Thousands of people will find it easier to get the implants under a new proposal by Pharmac.

A mental health nurse's almost half-century career ended when he was found to have been sexually intimate with a patient in his care.

Do games like pickleball, padel and padder remind us that sport is actually meant to be fun?

A round-up of news fom around the region, including assurances provided to Vanuatu government that funds paid to Airbus for the purchase of A220 aircraft will be returned.

Analysis - Five years after New Zealand's first Covid-19 lockdown, it is clear there will be no going back to the pre-pandemic "normal".

Health New Zealand has admitted it marked an upgrade to faulty pipes at Auckland City Hospital as complete when in fact it was not.

A watchdog has found the 111 system caused 'unnecessary delays' while people were trapped under the hull. Audio

Tougher guidelines were 11 years in the making. But for multinational dairy companies, profits were at stake. Audio

With 30-40 percent of senior doctor positions unfilled, the hospital is facing critical staff shortages.

The head of the Mental Health Foundation says he is not confident there will not be a repeat of a mistake that saw an 11-year-old girl wrongly identified as an adult mental health patient. Audio

HealthNZ was only aware of one of the cases of patients becoming sicker during delays at the hospital before media reports surfaced.

A crisis in primary health care is worsening and calls are increasing for some hospital funding to be diverted to GPs.

Nearly 25 years after the "corngate" saga, the debate on genetic modification is back thanks to the Gene Technology Bill currently in select committee.

The girl had been diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a form of cancer that develops in the bone marrow.

Wait times for first specialist appointments and elective treatment have gotten longer - but Health NZ says it is on track to make improvements on the other three government health targets.

This round of redundancies comes on top of 540 job cuts, which were confirmed in November.

Animal behavioural experts say attacks can be prevented by following a few simple guidelines.

Studies show the community-led initiative has made a significant impact in reducing domestic violence over the past decade.