The Health Minister, Simeon Brown, said the Elective Boost programme would cut surgery waiting times as 21,000 more elective procedures are funded over the next year. He spoke to Charlotte Cook.

Bluebridge's new Cook Strait ferry will be arriving in Wellington on Thursday. In a post on its Facebook page, Bluebridge said the Livia was scheduled to sail into the capital about 8am. After ...

The country's electoral commissioner says based on the 2021 Census, that's 81 percent of all eligible voters who have ...

Police spokesperson, Ana Naisoro, said they were found inside a water tank about 200 metres away from his house. The scene ...

Civil Defence officials are meeting flood-hit residents in the Tasman region, as more bad weather heads toward the region. The meeting, in Wakefield, is the first of two to be held on Wednesday, with ...

A methane-tracking satellite that recieved $29 million of funding from the government is lost in space. RNZ's climate change correspondent Eloise Gibson spoke to Charlotte Cook.

The church and community centre continued to be used for gatherings, even after being slapped with a dangerous building notice.

Motorists using a south Auckland road are fed up with road works, which are expected to drag on for almost two years due to ...

A coat worth $10,000 is out of reach for most of us, but a Wanaka-based design label has come up with a creative way to put quality goods in front of more customers. It's selling the coats, designed ...

Music commentator Dave Wilson looks at the work of Lalo Schifrin, an Argentine composer who died at the age of 93 this week and may best be remembered for creating the theme to Mission Impossible.

Jannik Sinner moved into the Wimbledon second round but it was a second day of upsets as seeded players crashed and burned.

A young vet has no regrets about moving to a rural practice at the bottom of the South Island where she's busy stitching up working dogs. Southland's Holly Gardyne is taking on a mix of farm work ...