Nurses with special authorisation for assessing and detaining mental health patients have quit over safety fears. They are worried about a police pullback on mental health callouts and changes to hospital procedures.

Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation are alarmed by a pause in a key component of Te Whatu Ora Health NZ safe staffing programme.

NZ Post could eventually stop delivering mail to individual letterboxes and instead require clusters of boxes under proposed changes - and the Postal Workers Union isn't happy.

A group of Tongan seasonal workers who were on a bus which rolled near Rotorua this morning had been in the country for just a few hours.

Massey University will stop funding its Students' Association from next year - a move the student body says will set an alarming precedent for the future of independent student unionism in NZ.

A woman charged over the stabbing of a taxi driver in Christchurch last month has pleaded guilty.

The Tenancy Tribunal has backed the mother of a toddler who says her child's health has been permanently affected.