A new research project will examine the effectiveness of drug checking programmes at music festivals to find out whether it helps keep people safe and... Read More

Preparation and using your options wisely are the keys to good health and helping out your healthcare services this Christmas and New Year. Our population... Read More

The summer period is a perfect time to take a well-deserved break and head off on holiday. During the Christmas period, many businesses shut down for... Read More

New regulations will allow local cultivation and manufacture of medicinal cannabis products that will potentially help ease the pain of thousands of... Read More

The whānau on one of New Zealand’s most intriguing islands have just received a licence to grow medicinal cannabis. Grown outside in the Matakana... Read More

A woman who fears she has cancer has been trespassed from the Waikato District Health Board and is now in the United States trying to get a second opinion... Read More

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced New Zealand will contribute NZ$1 million of funding towards the joint United Nations Fund for Children... Read More

3.45pm Update: Police can confirm a further person injured in the Whakaari / White Island eruption, and later repatriated to Australia, sadly died yesterday. “This... Read More

Stay cool but fence the pool. That’s the message from Sport BOP, Water Safety NZ and Tauranga City Council, who are reminding the public that... Read More

Kia ora and welcome to Saturday. Waiata ka kia whakakiia te hau e waiata ana. It’s looking fairly sunny, but still watch out for a few morning... Read More

The bodies recovered from Whakaari / White Island have been taken to Auckland for the post mortem and disaster victim identification process. Together... Read More

Clinicians around the country are treating a never before seen level of critical burns patients following the Whakaari/White Island eruption. At a press... Read More

For the first time, New Zealand is going to have national guidelines for contraceptives, including ironing out any confusion around the seven-day break... Read More

Kiwis will soon be able to access life-saving defibrillators at 181 Countdown supermarkets across the country. With AEDs already in some of its supermarkets,... Read More

Figures in a new report suggest the number of children living in serious poverty is greater than the population of Dunedin. The 2019 Child Poverty Monitor... Read More