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A coroner has found the contraceptive pill may have led to 17-year-old Isabella Alexander's death - and now her family are calling for changes to how it’s prescribed.

China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to eliminate COVID entirely earlier in the pandemic. But all eventually abandoned this approach because of the mounting social and economic costs and the…

Three of New Zealand's nine naval ships are sitting idle in port as higher civilian salaries lure personnel out of the military, the country's Defence Force said on Wednesday, even as tensions in the Pacific rise between China and the U.S. and its allies.

New Zealand high court case has become a focus of protests from anti-vaxxers

Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address the accelerating pace of species loss and the dangers of ecosystem breakdown.

Fans of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit can stay in a hobbit hole as imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien and realised by Sir Peter Jackson, courtesy of Russell Alexander, general manager of Hobbiton Movie Set Tours in New Zealand

Newly-published studies show consumers overseas would pay more for low environmental impact food, if we offered it to them. The depressing thing is, old research said pretty much the same thing.

PM says abusive behaviour from the public has become worse during her time as leader, but she’s not willing to accept it’s permanent.

Looking overseas for an organ transplant may be faster for Kiwis in need - but it comes with ethical issues about how exactly a 'donation' was made, according to campaigners.