Stories by Jessie Chiang

Wellington Women Lawyers' Association is bitterly disappointed that law firm Russell McVeagh is once again at the heart of a misconduct scandal.

It is Chinese Language Week and younger people around New Zealand are taking up Mandarin in record numbers.

The Professional Firefighters' Union says Auckland doesn't have enough specialist firefighting trucks to keep people in high-rise buildings safe.

Ninety gold miners are walking off the job in Waihi tonight in a bid for more pay from their employer, OceanaGold.

Hospitals are imploring the public to only use the emergency department if they are seriously ill with record numbers in the last week.

The number of phone scams is on the rise, police say.

A proposed walking and cycling link across the Auckland Harbour bridge is being opposed by some nearby residents who say there are serious safety concerns.

Auckland police are admitting they need to do a much better job protecting Indian, Chinese and other ethnic communities from crime.

A cat that lost a leg after being hit by a car on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway, then became stuck under a police car, has had a happy ending.

Customers say they are being stopped from doing their fair share to reduce plastic use as some supermarkets ban the 'bring your own' container policy.

There's been mixed reactions so far from the series of hui with Ngāpuhi this weekend, the Treaty Negotiations Minister says.

Nearly 80 protesters gathered outside Tegel's Auckland headquarters today, opposing plans to build a chicken farm in Northland.

More than 30 New Zealanders are going to fight wildfires ravaging California in the United States.

Forest and Bird is closing seven North Island reserves thought to be free of kauri dieback disease to try to stop it getting into the parks. Audio

Animal activists endangered chickens when filming injured and dead birds at a farm in Helensville, Tegel says.

More than 100 people have turned out in Auckland to a free-speech rally calling for two controversial Canadian speakers to be allowed to address a meeting in the city.

Hundreds of the country's most volatile and complex prisoners will be in a new home at Auckland's Paremoremo Prison, by October.

The former tenant of an Auckland house where a young woman was found dead at the weekend moved out just days before the body's discovery.

A South Auckland resident says the government's $180,000 KiwiBuild income cap is keeping the poor, poor and the rich, rich.

The number of suicide attempt and threat related calls to police have jumped by more than 50 percent in the past five years.

Health experts have sounded a word of caution over the government's decision to scrap targets set by National.

First Person - The impending arrival of the PM's baby is attracting international media interest - and for RNZ's reporter Jessie Chiang at the hospital, it's the second chapter of #stillwaiting.

Dozens of parents are calling for long pants to be part of the uniform at an Auckland primary school after being told they are too expensive.

With just days to go until the prime minister's due date, mothers at an Auckland playcentre have advice for the mother-to-be.

A couple killed in a fire along with their eight-year-old son had taken the batteries out of their fire alarms because they stopped working when their flat was too cold.