National

Two historians who teach thousands of children about the NZ Wars, Gallipoli and Vietnam are losing their jobs, while the role of bell ringer at the carillon is being cut after Anzac Day.

More than 36,000 nurses, midwives and health care assistants will walk off the job again today, demanding better pay and increased staffing.

Immigration NZ helped clear the way for an adopted girl to live with a family investigated by police for people-trafficking.

Five long weeks of battling wildfires in Canada day after day had an impact on seasoned Canterbury volunteer firefighter Tim Clark.

A supermarket duty manager was left with facial injuries after a man punched him in the head, then kicked him as he lay on the ground, in a brutal surprise attack.

The man accused of lighting the fatal Loafers Lodge fire told a forensic psychiatrist voices in his head told him to burn the place down, a court has heard.

Pupils at a Christchurch school have petitioned the local community for action to slow traffic that is "too fast and too dangerous".