Stories by Andrew McRae

More people will miss out on elective surgery this week at Waikato Hospital with the effect of the massive ransomware cyber attack set to continue until next week. Audio

An increase in people going to Waikato Hospital's emergency department has prompted a reminder to the public to stay away unless it is a real emergency.

Patients on elective surgery waiting lists in Waikato can expect more delays the longer a cyber attack on the region's public hospitals takes to resolve.

Waikato District Health Board says it believes it can get its computer system back up and running without having to pay a ransom after cyber hackers got into the system on Tuesday.

An 82-year-old Matamata man has been given home detention over the attempted murder of his wife in a suicide pact.

A man who spent time in the Epuni Boys' Home in the 1970s and was sexually abused, says there is evidence to suggest the man who abused him was prostituting boys.

A terminally ill man who spent time in state care and was abused says it is important that he tell his story to help stop the abuse of children continuing.

A boy of 14 sent to a bootcamp in Te Urewera in 1995 has told the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care he was violently assaulted by other boys and staff members.

A man who suffered extreme physical and psychological violence while staying at a Social Welfare-approved camp on Great Barrier Island in 1998 is now unable to work due to post traumatic stress.

Tyrone Marks first came to the attention of Social Welfare at the age of three. He was made a state ward at the age of nine and was in a number of boys' homes until 16.

A woman has told the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care about the physical and sexual abuse her parents subjected her to, and how the state did nothing to help.

Petrified young teenage boys digging their own graves and a mock execution has been outlined to the inquiry into abuse in care on Friday.

A woman who was raped by a welfare home staff member and became pregnant has outlined her ordeal before the inquiry into abuse in care.

For Gwyneth Beard, also known as Piwi, seven years of her life went missing while she was in state residential care.

A 70-year-old survivor of sexual abuse has recounted to the inquiry into Abuse in Care how the Social Welfare home she was in let her abusive father take her out, where he abused her again.

A steadfast determination to tell the truth saw a 14-year-old girl endure months of solitary confinement at a social welfare-run home in the mid 1960s.

Daniel Rei, who has spent many years of his life in prison, says he learnt drugs, alcohol and a casual attitude to violence in state-run boys' homes.

The Royal Commission has heard from a man who was put into the adult psychiatric hospital Cherry Farm when he was just nine.

Locked in cells, physically, sexually and emotionally abused: a man tells the Royal Commission of Inquiry about his life in state care from ages nine to 15.

The ending of a long-running health and fitness programme for young people in Waikato has upset one of the driving forces behind it and schools who had benefited.

World War veterans and their families were often left emotionally, physically, mentally and financially in a bad way when they returned from overseas, a study has found.

Army veteran Kane Te Tai, who helped co-found a veterans charity, says not enough is done for former service members in New Zealand.

The graves of the country's military veterans should be maintained by a government-funded body, a voluntary group involved in restoration work says.

Taupō man Gary Brandon is inviting a few of his mates over to his place to commemorate Anzac Day tomorrow. So far 325 have said they are going.

Large crowds are expected at Anzac Day services around the country on Sunday after public events were cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 lockdown.