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More than 65 percent of hospitals still use paper notes, Health Minister Simeon Brown says.

"The coalition government has escalated discrimination against Māori, spread misinformation, and overridden constitutional norms," says Lady Tureiti Moxon.

The country's men's counselling centre, Te Punanga Ora'anga Matutu, has welcomed the news.

A round-up of news from around the region, including the death of a long-serving lawmaker in the Northern Mariana Islands.

" We can do it right now, if Winston Peters is willing to walk the walk."

ACC says efforts to get long-term claimants off of weekly compensation is not about taking support away from people who need it. Audio

Jack Wesley who attacked a taxi driver in a drunken rage after training Ukrainian troops. Ron Mark says it's a textbook example of Defence Force mismanagement. Audio

Legislation to allow uniformed Defence personnel to cover striking civilian workers has passed in Parliament.

Morgan Geyser, who was living under supervised release at a group home for her role in the 2014 stabbing of her 12-year-old classmate, is back in custody.

Documents seen by RNZ show many of the lessons Oranga Tamariki says it learnt a lot from the coalition's boot camp trial were identifed more than a decade ago and shared with the programme designers.

Three months after fainting and waking up paralysed, Angel Dagcutan is still searching for answers. Audio

As cervical screening picks up pace toward an 80 percent coverage target, services to further examine cases alerted in the screening tests are not able to keep up, clinical experts say. Audio

Health NZ says its practice is not to discharge people to homelessness, but there is no reliable data on where people with complex mental health or addiction needs are sent.

The government has signalled it's considering introducing legislation that would give police the power to issue move-on orders to remove unhoused people from Auckland's city centre.

While young people who currently have a prescription will be able to continue to use their medication in New Zealand, doctors will not be allowed to prescribe to new patients from mid-December.

The husband was unable to make contact with the midwife as the bedside phone had been switched to "block caller mode".

Part of a massive petition calling for an urgent fix for the health system never made it to Wellington, where the petition was presented last week.

A rainbow sand art toy sold at various discount stores nation-wide is the latest coloured sand product to be recalled over concerns about asbestos.