Some parts of storm-hit Northland may be cut off for days as the intense weather system moves down NZ, impacting other regions in time for the Easter holiday.
There are calls for greater transparency about what a NZ warship was doing before it sank in Samoa - including whether it was performing specific security for British royalty.
A Christchurch restaurant owner who sold toxic food to customers and directed the recalled product to be eaten by her staff has received a reduced sentence.
The country's biggest bank is forecasting the Reserve Bank will need to cut the official cash rate (OCR) deeper for longer to support a stumbling economic recovery.
A patient was left with PTSD, depression and felt demoralised and demeaned after they got pregnant and had an abortion when a doctor failed to re-insert their contraceptive device.
A former Facebook executive says social media should be banned for kids - because their brains aren't developed enough to deal with the site's "frightening" algorithms.
A new study has found rates of bacterial infection campylobacteriosis are twice as likely for people living in rural areas than for their urban counterparts.
The union representing senior doctors is defending plans for industrial action, saying patient safety is already being sacrificed by a depleted health system.