Stories by Keiller MacDuff

HealthNZ was only aware of one of the cases of patients becoming sicker during delays at the hospital before media reports surfaced. Audio

新西兰药管局表示一直在探索可行方案，但由于预算有限，只能在不同的公费药物项目之间做权衡。

Auckland deputy mayor Desley Simpson recently suffered from a painful shingles infection she likened to having "a hedgehog strapped to my face". Audio

"This is not new money - it's robbing Peter to pay Paul," Labour MP Tracey McLellan says.

Wickliffe, 77, who served a life sentence for manslaughter, was recalled to prison for not residing at his approved address.

The departing Chief Ombudsman says the Official Information Act is fit for purpose but the attitude of government agencies needed to change. Audio

A trio of academics are calling on the Canterbury Regional Council to take urgent action on what they deem a water pollution crisis.

A former National Party MP has come out swinging at a Green Party petition seeking visa-free travel for Pacific Island visitors, despite campaigning for the same goal.

An unlikely coalition of more than 80 companies, councils and not-for-profit organisations is urging the government to introduce a long awaited recycling scheme.

A ministry is investigating School Lunch Collective meals served to kids with plastic packaging melted into the contents, one of four food probes into the troubled scheme. Audio

Health care cuts are wreaking havoc on front-line services, according to a union survey released today. Audio

Olga Dubnytska believes the US President and Vice-President took advantage of the language barrier by "rudely interrupting" and "humiliating" Ukraine's President.

Concerned Selwyn residents say nitrate levels in their drinking water are being pushed up by human effluent spread on fields near their homes.

Christchurch Airport has welcomed New Zealand's first electric fire truck, but one expert says the saved emissions will be "insignificant and inconsequential".

Critics say the new phrase, 'Everyone Must Go', sounded like a clearance sale - so they came up with alternatives. Audio

Rolleston's John Boulton was found guilty and will now have to pay the fine.

How much blame can be laid on tree species? Audio

The review outlines a swift and aggressive response to the fires, but also identifies areas for improvement.

The new minister of transport has opened the door for public consultation on at least some of the speed limit changes the government said would be automatic. Audio

Twenty-three plaques have been stolen from a cemetery where they are part of a memorial for victims of the country's deadliest fire.

One of two pods of pilot whales stranded over the weekend remain on Puponga Beach near Pakawau, as rescuers await high tide at 3:30pm today. Audio

The dams costs have come in at much more that initially projected.

Christchurch's Air Force Museum saw a 36 percent increase in visitor numbers on the same period last summer, which its director attributes to a rainy festive season.

Metservice meterologist John Law says a tornado is "definitely not out of the question".

The unsettled weather will continue over much of country on Tuesday, with parts of the North and South Island likely to get off to a soggy start.