Stories by Adriana Weber

Asylum seekers given refugee status in New Zealand are being left to fend for themselves, ending up sleeping in churches and on couches, advocates say. Audio

Working up to 14-hour days in gruelling heat and navigating steep cliffs with heavy gear to fight "tornado-like fires", is how Napier woman Allison Ludlow spent the past month.

A series of slow and silent earthquakes of unprecedented scale have been uncovered in the wake of November's Kaikōura quake.

A New Zealander living in Mexico has described clinging to his doorway, while an 8.1 magnitude earthquake rolled and rumbled on for over a minute.

New Zealand's Pasifika firefighters want to spark more interest in the profession among their peers. Audio

A mother who lost a child to suicide is calling for urgent change after it was revealed more than 600 New Zealanders took their own lives in the year to June.

The original plan for a Christchurch stadium is too expensive, suggests a new report offering four cheaper options. Audio

A New Zealand helicopter pilot fighting enormous wildfires in Canada says the conditions there are the worst he has experienced in 25 years.

Dozens of New Zealand firefighters are on their way to Canada to help combat the more than 200 wildfires forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes.

Winegrowers in Central Otago have developed a new tool to prevent argi-chemicals drifting and damaging their crops.

Beneficiaries faced a 0.3 percent increase in living costs, while costs fell 0.1 percent for the highest earners, the latest quarterly data shows.

Hundreds of messages from stressed and overworked GPs are being delivered to the Health Minister in a bid to get more funding for primary health care.

A new bacteria being developed across the Tasman could save cheesemakers a huge amount of time and money, a New Zealand producer says.

Weeds are costing the country's agriculture sector billions of dollars a year, a new study has revealed.

Hospitals have been forced to leave patients to wait in ambulances due to a lack of space as winter illnesses flood emergency departments, an ED director says. Audio

The stormy weather has thrown up some unpleasant experiences for passengers flying into Wellington Airport.

A small Taranaki town will get two new doctors to help fill a massive shortage of GPs in the area, but residents will have to wait more than three months before they arrive.

The government has today unveiled plans to build an extra 330 new homes in Lower Hutt, and bring hundreds more up to warm, dry standards.

A $300m restructure will bring rural, urban, career and volunteer fire services together but a union is worried divisions will remain.

A self-described vigilante who slashed the tyres of dozens of cars near Wellington airport has had his prison sentence quashed.

A dilapidated Wellington house worth $500,000, despite being on the verge of collapsing onto a public walkway, has been demolished. Video

Wellington City Council has apologised to an elderly couple who have been forced to walk a plank to escape raw sewage in their backyard during heavy rain.

Two cases of typhoid in Palmerston North are related to an outbreak of the disease in Auckland last month, the MidCentral District Health Board says.

Up to 87 people could lose their jobs at ACC if they are unwilling to switch roles or move to Dunedin or Hamilton.

A man left critically ill by last year's water contamination crisis in Havelock North wants the councils in charge sued.