A primary school and a preschool near where a child was indecently assaulted in Auckland last week say police didn't alert them to what had happened.

Health NZ Commissioner Lester Levy is "living in La La Land" and has no idea what's happening on the ground, a cardiologist who finishes up at Tauranga Hospital on Friday because of burnout says.

The Labour Party is 'cautiously' supportive of the government's proposal to allow tradies to sign off on their own work.

A jury has been shown CCTV footage of a man buying a spade on the day Christchurch real estate agent Yanfei Bao went missing who the Crown says is her killer.

Two men, one accused of murdering an 18-year-old woman found in a burned-out car in Hawke's Bay in 2022, can now be named.