Bill Hickman

A sudden explosion of ram raids has been followed by an equally swift decline.

A new report has slammed the state of the country's hospital radiology services saying inadequate staff numbers and a lack of investment is 'unravelling' the sector.

The coroner says the employers of an Irish seasonal worker - killed when a digger touched with overhead powerlines - failed to brief workers on safety procedures ahead of the death.

At least 34 quakes have been recorded west of Castlepoint in the last seven days.

It comes after initial plans for them to be taken to the National Library were abandoned.

Nathaniel James Mahoney was released from prison earlier this year.

Abdulhassan Nabizadah, 63, was lured to the suburb of Miramar by a text message before things took a violent turn, police say.

"We're too scared to lose houses because the scarcity of the housing here in Queenstown is really hard to get. So that time we don't have any choice [but] to follow his orders because we don't have…

Uber driver's contracts were "repressive" and could be altered "at the stroke of a pen", the Supreme Court has heard.

The Court is to decide whether its drivers should be considered employees.

Uber is appealing against a landmark Employment Court decision that granted four drivers workplace protection. Audio

The agency wants to trial re-allocating 12 beds as a medical ward for emergency department patients. Audio

A 28-year-old has been charged with aggravated burglary and aggravated injury.

It is still unclear who the person was or how long they'd been there.

Last month the polytechnic revealed a plan to cut nearly 60 positions and over a dozen programmes.

Two sections of state highway in the Mackenzie Country that were closed overnight because of risk from snow and ice, have now reopened.

Under the proposed new scheme, bus and train users would pay for up to eight trips a week and any additional trips would be free.

The creative campus in Wellington has had student enrolments drop substantially.

Two district councils in the Lower North Island are banding together against downgraded plans for an expressway through their districts.

Another person has come forward to police after RNZ reported on an investigation into a Wellington man who is the subject of multiple complaints.

Abdulhassan Nabizadah was found injured on a Miramar street corner in March and died in hospital.

A group of sufferers, survivors and supporters gathered at Parliament to call for screening age to be lowered.

Trans-Tasman Resources wants to mine the South Taranaki Bight seabed every year for three decades.

A Wellington man is being investigated over "multiple complaints" of assault, which RNZ understands relate to sex crimes.

The driver Alan Leatham died at a local hospice after living with Parkinson's disease and had a stomach tumour.