Southern people deserve answers over the new Dunedin hospital after the Health Minister raised the spectre of throwing out plans for the inpatient building and starting again, local MPs say.
The accused creator of a secret app used by organised crime networks will remain behind bars after police thwarted a string of potential murders and violent crimes.
Helen Clark has launched a fresh broadside against the government for shifting its strategic outlook after confirmation Wellington is consulting with Aukus members.
The judge in the murder trial of former Auckland eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne has summed up the case for the jury and urged them make a decision "free from sympathy or prejudice".
Floods in Myanmar have killed at least 226 people in just over a week, after heavy rains battered the central provinces of the war-torn Southeast Asian country.
A Christchurch teenager has been discharged without conviction after he caused a crash that killed a 19-year-old woman and seriously injured four others.
The health minister says the new Dunedin hospital "remains under active consideration" but is refusing to confirm if the project may be a phased build.