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This week marks Mental Health Awareness Week, and today is World Mental Health Day. Hundreds of submissions coming into People’s Mental Health Review suggest the thing New Zealanders need to be aware of this week is that the Public Mental Health System ...

"Getting to school safely should be one of the most basic human rights of our children, right? Not in New Zealand", according to Lucinda Rees from the lobby group NZ School Speeds. Today many children will be driven to school, but consider ...

Dr Paul Young will be presented with Medicines New Zealand’s 2016 Value of Medicines Award for leading a world-class study into the effects paracetamol has on patients in intensive care units (ICU) this evening.

Press Release – Eat My Lunch Eat My Lunch has opened in Wellington. The social enterprise business provides affordable, wholesome lunches, made fresh daily and delivered directly to workplaces and schools. For every purchase of a commercial lunch, Eat My Lunch delivers a lunch to a child who would otherwise go hungry. Wellingtonians can start […]

Bill English should release the details of the new houses he says will be built by the Government, including how affordable they’ll actually be, the Green Party said today.

Green MP Marama Davidson has been heavily criticised by Ngapuhi kaumatua David Rankin for her involvement in the illegal Gaza flotilla protest.

Haiti: UN emergency fund allocates $5 million to kick-start assistance in wake of Hurricane Matthew

Labour, the Green Party and the Māori Party are calling on the Government to immediately adopt the 20 recommendations set out in today’s Ending Homelessness in New Zealand report.

UN chief, senior humanitarian officials strongly condemn attack in Yemen that killed over a hundred people

“Abuse of children in our schools by teachers should not be tolerated in any way, shape or form” Guthrie

ShelterBox, the international emergency shelter experts, is sending aid and a response team to Haiti in the wake of the most powerful Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade

Today dawned the beginning of a new tertiary era for the Bay of Plenty region with the blessing of the newest tertiary institute, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology (Toi Ohomai). Hundreds of invited guests gathered at the Mokoia Campus in Rotorua ...

Preliminary local body election results have been released in the last few minutes. The People's Choice is pleased with these results, which have increased their numbers by one, from six Council seats to seven.

The Department of Conservation and New Zealand’s leading image library One Shot are pleased to announce a new partnership that will heighten the visibility of conservation work.

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee will today arrive in China to attend the 7th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says mental health awareness week is a good reminder for people to think about their mental health and wellbeing.

The capital city gave over half of what the country raised sponsoring people to sleep rough for the night. SHAR DAVIS joined the event, and spoke to participants.

Liam Hehir writes: There has been talk of a possible Cabinet reshuffle lately. There’s no certainty of this, of course, but the Government does at least have the luxury of having some very good backbenchers who look ready for promotion. Foremost among them is Alfred Ngaro, a list MP from Auckland, who is widely tipped […]

Press Release – Creative New Zealand Wellington writer Marilyn Duckworth is one of three recipients of the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement announced today. The other two recipients are Atholl Anderson and David Eggleton. They will each be awarded $60,000 in recognition of their outstanding contribution to New Zealand literature. The three winners were […]

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The Herald reported: An Auckland man whose discharge without conviction for beating his wife with a hammer has been overturned says he fears the consequences for his family. Yasir Mohib denies a hammer was involved but admits assaulting his wife. The facts of the case are that the assault occurred after she complained they weren’t […]

Dear Phil,

Congratulations on becoming Mayor. While the margin was a bit closer than some had expected, that’s what happens when you get such a low turnout – who actually votes ends up being a bit different to those who get polled. By the way, we really have to make progress on online registration and [...]

Press Release – New Zealand Government Cabinet has today agreed to deploy an additional 35 New Zealand Defence Force personnel to an international peacekeeping mission in Egypts Sinai Peninsula, Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says. Hon Gerry Brownlee Minister of Defence 10 October 2016 Short deployment of NZDF engineers to Sinai Cabinet has today agreed to […]

Press Release – NZ Catholic Bishops Archbishop Sir John Ribat, of Port Moresby Diocese in Papua New Guinea was named by Pope Francis among the list of 17 new Cardinals appointed to the College of Cardinals.NZ Bishops delighted by appointment of first Cardinal from Papua New Guinea Archbishop Sir John Ribat, of Port Moresby Diocese […]

Wellington.Scoop One of the most inscrutable press releases ever – it’s from the police and it refers to a “scare” at Rimutaka Prison. But what was scaring them? They’re not telling. Press Release – NZ Police at midday Prison operations at Rimutaka resumed after scare Police advise that the situation at the Rimutaka Prison on […]