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Alison Watson has extensive international experience dealing with the fall army worm which can wipe out crops. The pest was found in Tauranga and near Hamilton this month. She heads ASEAN's fall…

A Black man who was killed by a Michigan, police officer during a traffic stop earlier this month, sparking protests in the city, was shot in the back of the head, a forensic pathologist who performed…

New infestations of a crop-killing moth could cost New Zealand farmers tens of millions of dollars if populations survive winter.

Iran's armed forces will target Israel's heart if it makes "the slightest move" against the Islamic Republic, President Ebrahim Raisi says, amid stalled talks to revive a 2015 nuclear pact.

The government may change the law so would-be terrorists and refugees who are serious offenders could be sent back to their home countries.

Covid-19 restrictions for all of New Zealand will ease from midnight tonight but a leading epidemiologist says the country is divided in its risk.

A fund manager is calling out what it calls the growing issue of greenwashing in the investment sector.

The Security Intelligence Service was calling the LynnMall knife attacker a terrorist for years, at the same time as courts were hearing he was a high, medium or even low-risk threat.

Pharmacists are putting their hands up to do more to help people get their rapid antigen tests (RATs) done properly and with more reliable results. Audio

The Ministry of Health is heeding a WHO warning about wider surveillance needed to detect a new Covid-19 recombinant. Here's what we know. Audio

A six-week project to remove the surveillance domes and antennae at Waihōpai Station near Blenheim, is underway.

It is inevitable new Covid-19 variants such as the newly discovered XE strain will arrive in the country, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says. Audio

Samoa reports second Covid-19 related death; Covid-19 restrictions lifted in the Cook Islands; Another 68 Covid-19 cases recorded in French Polynesia, and more.

Four people contracted Covid-19 after a person with the virus visited a patient at Dunedin Hospital.

The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a radiologist failed to spot malignant growths on a woman's lung.

Two Arab gunmen killed two police officers in Israel on Sunday and were then shot dead, as the US secretary of state and three Arab foreign ministers visited the country for a summit.

Huge cranes are towering above the flat Manawatū countryside as construction of two hangars for new Air Force aircraft cruises at altitude.

Proposed Fiji-New Zealand military cooperation vital to Pacific security

The Samoa Government has extended its alert level three lockdown for another two weeks because of the rapid spread of the Covid-19 in the community.

Explainer - There's a new Covid-19 variant making headlines around the world - Deltacron. Whatever you may think about that name, it's exactly what it sounds like - a combination of the Delta and…

The announcement of loosening of Covid-19 measures has not been met with all-round approval from experts, with some split over the removal of vaccine pass requirements.

Rescuers have kept up their search for survivors in the heavily forested mountains of China's southern Guangxi region, with Chinese state media describing the situation as "grim".