Unusual demand at Christchurch ED, not a staff shortage, led to the plea for patients to seek non-urgent medical treatment elsewhere, Health New Zealand says. In a plea on its social media page on ...

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Patients going overseas for weight-loss surgery are returning with potentially life-threatening complications and clogging up ...

A stack of plastic mugs and bowls stand drip-drying in a rusty dish rack on an outdoor bench. Limp washing hangs from a guy rope strung between two trees. Someone is brewing coffee at a damp-stained ...

Victorian breeder-owners Duncan McPherson and Pat Driscoll, two of the biggest players in the Australasian squaregaiting ranks, experienced success on ...

The new collection of short stoies Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn (Otago University Press, $35) is available in bookstores ...

(Turbli splits its turbulence ratings into five EDR categories: Light (0-20); Moderate (20-40); Strong (40-60); Severe (60-80); Extreme (80-100). While Santiago et al sit in the “moderate” camp, ...

But true to his word and in defiance of the sceptics, the tide turned with his breakthrough 101 in the rain-ruined third Test against India at Brisbane which launched the so-called second coming of ...

Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON (Prime Minister): I present the Prime Minister's statement. SPEAKER: That paper is published under the authority of the House. Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: I move, That this ...

"We know that New Zealand's electricity system faces challenges - particularly when the wind isn't blowing, the sun doesn't shine, and when the lakes are low. Last winter highlighted ... systems far ...

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