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The government is investing $20 million to reduce the damage methamphetamine use is causing to families and communities in the regions.

The Forest Owners Association has apologised and said the industry is committed to cleaning the beach and owners will pay for it, not ratepayers. Audio

Tairāwhiti locals are preparing for a second storm after a deluge of weekend rain flooded a highway and sent forest slash tumbling towards beaches.

The Black Lives Matter movement has prompted many institutions - including media - to re-examine their own records on race and diversity.  Four years ago RNZ made a long-term commitment to…

Jobs and a chance to reconnect with the whenua are the positive outcomes for an iwi of the government's Jobs for Nature programme.

Services to help those with drug and alcohol addictions are set to get an extra $32 million in funding over the next four years.

A former Department of Conservation ranger and Ngāti Porou descendant fears rubbish from an old landfill near the Awatere River on the East Cape could find its way out to the sea if a solution isn't…

Gisborne students say they struggle to understand why an in-school GP service needed to be axed to make way for yet-to-be-established youth health hubs.

More than 2250 food parcels have been distributed to Tairawhiti households as part of the Covid-19 emergency response.

Gisborne Girls' High School students will press their case for free in-school doctors' appointments when they meet members of the district health board this month.

Forestry may be back but for many others it is a waiting game to see if employers will keep them on when the subsidy cash runs out.

A main tower block at Nelson Hospital and the special care baby unit at Waitākere Hospital are in the worst condition of any hospital buildings in New Zealand, a nationwide hospital stocktake shows.

"Talk to us - that's the whole point," said a protester at this morning's extraordinary meeting of Gisborne district councillors as they voted unanimously to revoke their earlier decision to install…

The number of planned surgeries at Gisborne Hospital that were put off due to the alert level 4 lockdown topped 100.

Auckland is at greater risk from the coronavirus flare-up than the rest of the country, a leading Covid-19 data modeller says.

MP Shane Jones says he will not overrule "the KiwiRail experts" who have thrown cold water on the proposal to restore the train line between Gisborne and Wairoa.

There has been a surge in the rate of Māori being tested for Covid-19, but several districts are still lagging behind.