Health

The agreement was reached after 18 months of bargaining between the Health NZ and the PSA.

We've counted steps and refilled water bottles, but the latest metric to measure is ZZZs.

Police say people are "playing chicken" and seeing whether they can drive without blacking out after inhaling the gas.

Pathology labs are vital but a choke point in processing virtually all the samples of patients from hospitals and doctors.

AI is becoming a useful tool, but often cannot not be used to its full extent because of outdated IT systems, a doctors' union rep said.

Young Middle Eastern, Latin American and African people report unique challenges.

Bio-hackers are looking for the answers to stretching out their lives as long as possible, but research says there's a biological end point for our bodies.

Two West Auckland shopping centres are locations of interest.

Canterbury Regional Council has received more than 4500 complaints during the past month describing a "putrid, sewage-like smell".

The report by Blind and Low Vision NZ used anonymised data from StatsNZ to compare the experience of people with visual impairments to other groups. Audio

Biddy Tai Ahmu says she would never been able to have the operation if she couldn't tap into the fund. Audio

The study found nearly 90 percent of the callouts were of low level and should have been managed in the community.

The Public Service Association says cuts to Health NZ's digital team mean they have lost IT experts who know how to patch up outages quickly.