Stories by Lauren Crimp

Prioritising walking and cycling would improve overall health and save the health system money, new research shows.

Even more drastic change than the grocery commissioner's plans to ramp up regulation and enforcement is needed, Consumer NZ says

Auckland alone has secured $8.4b from the government - more than twice as much as the entire South Island.

The call comes as Minister for Disability Issues Louise Upston has announced a shake-up for Whaikaha, including a freeze on funding for facilities that look after disabled people.

The government doesn't know where they've gone - but an advocate says it's likely nowhere good.

Patched Mongrel Mob members performed a haka in regional council chambers to celebrate a decision to keep Māori wards.

Explainer - The changes making it harder to get into emergency housing, and harder to stay in.

With little affordable housing available, ministers were told changes could see more people living on streets and in cars, documents reveal. Audio

Blake Wilson was a "goody good" and the dramatic circumstances of his death don't make sense, a coworker says.

The boy's family has reported the attack to police while Ashburton College says the behaviour is "completely unacceptable".

He was shot in the torso and sliced in the head on Tuesday night.

Blake Wilson, 23, from Palmerston North was killed when a helicopter he "misappropriated" crashed into a hotel. Audio

Any proposed cuts at the EPA make no sense and carried risks for the environment, Environmental Defence Society chief executive Gary Taylor says.

"I just feel fundamentally uncomfortable about playing role of traffic engineer here," one of three councillors who left a vote on pedestrian crossings says.

One business owner says she will be "massively out of pocket" after some of her customers' orders were on the truck.

But the ministry has stopped short of confirming whether more roles could be cut.

A government lawyer has told a court a settlement agreement between midwives and the Crown did not carry legal obligations to improve pay and contracts.

A lawyer representing nearly 1500 midwives says the government must be held to account for breaking two legally binding settlement agreements.

Midwives are taking on the government in court after what they claim has been nearly a decade of broken promises to pay and support them properly.

Nearly 200 people dived in frigid 9C Wellington water to raise money Saturday morning.

Te Kurutao Group Māori has 48 full-time staff, and the organisation is consulting on a plan to shed 27 roles.

"One of the cops nudge[d] it with his foot, and I thought, he's not going to nudge it if it's a body."

Two were stabbed and two others hit by a vehicle during the brawl described by police as "appalling" in Wairoa at the weekend.

Martin Ditlhabi, now 27, was arrested after a raft of sexual allegations on social media.

The 45-year-old is already facing charges of exploitation and rape.