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But the government has rejected an advisory group's call for a more elite university system.

The health minister revealed plans for a 24/7 online GP service earlier this year.

Parliament's health committee was supposed to report back on the legislation last month, but this has now been extended twice.

Lon Reti was jailed the following year for murdering Leslie Allan Edmonds.

The Marsden Fund is among three contestable funds to lose millions to help set up the new Institute for Advanced Technology.

The government meeds to rethink its opposition to a bed night levy for Auckland, the mayor says. Audio

Wayne Brown is asking the government to reconsider its opposition to a bed night levy.

New Zealand's foreign minister says Cook Islanders are free to choose whether their country continues in free association with New Zealand.

A pharmacist says Bellamere Duncan's death was "not an isolated incident". Audio

There are no sources of administrative data that include adequate rainbow demographic markers such as sexual orientation, gender, transgender experience or variations of sex characteristics.

But the Minister for Pacific Peoples and Universities says the academic institution in Waikato will prioritise under-represented communities.

A round-up of news from around the region, including reports out of the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville that prison warders are illegally freeing offenders from jail.

The government has announced it will put much less money than originally expected into the project.

The government has green-lit a new medical school at the University of Waikato, ending months of delays due to coalition wrangling.

Artificial intelligence, robotics, electric vehicles and new forms of energy were a key focus of the 2025 China Business Summit.

Christopher Luxon has confirmed a new public research organisation focused on "supercharging" the economy.

She says she spent the night in Wellington Hospital but is now back home and "on the mend".

Namulau'ulu Nu'uali'i Eteroa Lafaele is calling for resourcing, representation, and equity to be central to AI policy.

While the government talks up AI-driven productivity, its strategy offers little protection for jobs, ethics, or equity. Audio

Pacific data experts warn reforms to the way the New Zealand government collects community-level data will "fail Pasifika communities".