The Health and Disability Commission (HDC) has found a woman's rights were breached when her right fallopian tube was removed without her informed consent.
RNZ has cancelled the broadcast of a podcast episode featuring disgraced former minister Kiritapu Allan, saying it does not meet its standards of impartiality.
The Foreign Minister has called claims a West Papuan politician paid a bribe ahead of the release of kidnapped New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens "a disgrace".
The coalition government disagrees with advice provided by officials that $3 billion a year is needed to reach New Zealand's child poverty reduction target.
Police have begun testing a new way of weighing up harm and risks when they take emergency 111 calls, which will see fewer responses by officers to social harm calls.
The family of freed New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens say they are "extremely grateful and relieved" he has been released and will soon be reunited with them.
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed from more than 1 1/2 years in captivity in West Papua, Indonesia, local police announced on Saturday.