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Clinics have already begun closing in some US states after a Supreme Court ruling removed the constitutional right to abortion.

Millions of women in the US will lose the constitutional right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling that legalised it.

Can it really be only 12 months ago that Emma Raducanu introduced herself to Wimbledon as a beaming, joyous 18-year-old happy to even be invited to the tournament.

In today's sports news - Mixed day for Kiwi golfers, sell-out for rugby league's return, 3x3 Tall Blacks advance out of pool play at world cup and squads boosted for Football World Cup.

Today's Matariki celebrations signal the maturing of Aotearoa, Sir Pou Temara has said at a hautapu ceremony this morning.

After 12 years as an MP, a standing ovation and waiata have marked outgoing cabinet minister Kris Faafoi's final speech in Parliament. Video

Draft legislation which would see state broadcasters RNZ and TVNZ subsumed into a new entity would take effect from 1 March next year.

More than ten years after it started, big changes are being called for in Papua New Guinea's tuition fee-free education system.

As Aotearoa prepares to mark its first Matariki long weekend, tourism operators are hopeful it's a sign of more prosperity to come.

Three students have been expelled from an Otago high school after assaulting another student in a school bathroom.

With opponents of the government's three waters reforms saying they're dangerous, wasteful and unpopular, what's their alternative?

Ukraine has acknowledged difficulties in fighting in the east as Russian forces step up pressure and make major advances on two cities in Luhansk.

Two bills - one addressing the supermarket duopoly, the other providing for a fourth round of Covid vaccination - are set for their second reading, committee stage and third readings this week.

Vanuatu's Parliament has shelved the controversial constitutional changes that Prime Minister Bob Loughman's Government wanted to push through.

The Minister of Police says he is looking at what other changes and resources the police may need in order to tackle the escalation in gang violence. Audio

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has hinted the sport could follow swimming in banning transgender women from elite female competitions.

A man with severe mental illness is bounced between healthcare and prison because he can't get accommodation and treatment. A leading forensic psychiatrist says hundreds are in the same position.

Opinion - Jacinda Ardern's decision to attend the NATO summit in Spain but skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Rwanda symbolises the changes she is making to New Zealand foreign…

A year after the death of a man who fell or jumped out a Palmerston North Hospital window, his family are still waiting for someone take responsibility.

A veteran firebrand of France's far-left has a strong chance of depriving President Emmanuel Macron of controlling the next government.