Stories by Rachel Helyer Donaldson

RNZ and the Otago Daily Times were considered the most trustworthy news providers, and a five year decline appears to be ending.

It is hoped that it will boost the number of people trained to provide New Zealanders with much needed mental health and addiction support.

Doctors say they are "very worried" about a measles outbreak as cases rise rapidly overseas, and they're urging people heading overseas to make sure they're vaccinated.

The government plans to auction off 15 online casino licenses next year.

A public health adviser says the winter flu season appears to be kicking off early, as cases spike across the Tasman.

A FENZ spokesperson said the original alert at 2.30am gave no details, but they soon found a ute crashed in a ditch.

Some people are worried the money will be use by the government for military purposes.

An Auckland engineering student said her sister texted from Bangkok to say she was stuck in a mall and wasn't sure if she'd survive.

A Health NZ review shows a sharp spike in patients who discharged themselves dying within 30 days of presenting at an ED.

The mayor admits some feel "forgotten" but the plan is needed to provide a "glimmer of hope" in the face of increasingly damaging flooding.

The fatal attack ollowed a break-in at a Darlington Road house just 20 minutes earlier, down the road from where Abdul Nabizadah was found.

On Friday the Public Service Association (PSA) lodged a pay equity claim for library assistants with the Employment Relations Authority, after the stalling of a claim lodged with six councils in 2019.

The NZDF have put its team specialising in preventing and responding to sexual offences on notice as part of consultation on cost cutting.

It opened in 1925 as a rest and recuperation centre for sick children.

Green MP Teanau Tuiono says Pacific people have been asking for visa-free travel for some time.

More than 200,000 New Zealanders are in Queensland, so RNZ have asked some to share what they've seen during Cyclone Alfred.

Dozens of protesters wearing Man Up t-shirts have met the start of the Wellington Pride parade, performing a haka.

Some are milking once-a-day and sending stock to the works early.

Greenpeace had offered to survey the site for free, using deep sea cameras during an already planned expedition to survey seamounts and other underwater mountains, but the New Zealand government…

While the Minister of Education Erica Stanford said difficult decisions would need to be made, she said the government was not looking to defund expert teachers who support literacy or te reo Māori.

A metal statue of the iconic jedi master was stolen from a Madras Street property in the Wellington suburb of Khandallah on Tuesday night.

Hundreds of engineers are losing their jobs and leaving our shores due to infrastructure project delays, creating "significant" risk to our nation's development, says the head of New Zealand's…

A hīkoi has been held in Whakatāne to protest the closure of the area's obstetrics unit, 'chronic understaffing, poor management and a dysfunctional health system'. Audio

A research firm says plummeting sales in New Zealand have nothing to do with its chief executive's polarising views - but some local graffiti shows a different view. Audio

A Christchurch man who lost 55 relatives in three Israeli airstrikes on Gaza says his remaining family will never leave, despite a US proposal to remove them. Audio