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Costello assured MPs she remained focused on achieving the Smokefree 2025 goals.

Fadi, 8, and Jumaa, 10, were killed while fetching firewood for their disabled father.

Housing Minister Chris Bishop said renters should be taking advantage of the market.

The first week of Parliament's final sitting block of 2025 is focused on scrutiny on past Government spending. Early conflict focused on animal welfare.

It is more than a decade after the Beijing-bound flight disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

Last year, the government raised the levy from $11.5 million to $16.6m a year.

The new cases are in both the North and South Islands.

However, MPs say "record budgets" are failing to translate into basic services on the ground.

Māori are being undercounted by around six percent, masking the true scale of incarceration and its impact on whānau, a new study says.

We look at the government's nine key goals and see what it's achieved so far.

The trio want watercraft reinstated immediately - however, FENZ says this won't be happening.

Kymani Hiley-Hetaraka, 13, was not wearing a helmet when she fell at Alpine Ice. She died in hospital two days later.

It comes amid a Corrections review of a risk assessment tool used in deciding whether prisoners are suitable to share a call, after two suspected murders in nine months.

As she passes the mantle, Dr Ang Jury says she had hoped she would have worked herself out of a job by now, but stayed because the need never abated. Audio

Local government administration roles, and healthcare and social services were up slightly, but everyone else ended the year worse off on average.

Spin-bowling all-rounder Will Jacks will replace paceman Mark Wood in an otherwise unchanged England side for the second Ashes test in Brisbane later this week.

The School Lunch Collective is investigating after mouldy mince was served up to students at Haeata Community Campus yesterday.

The government is facing an extra $1.4 billion liability, but has not ruled out further legal action.

Alister Thorby spent the fraudulently obtained DHB funds on buying a house, vehicles, and overseas travel.