A teenager’s death from complications after surgery revealed troubling gaps in complex care across the South Island at the time, the Health and Disability Commissioner says.

A man who died after falling from a cliff in Banks Peninsula felt suddenly sick before he fell.

A woman has been hospitalised after an alleged stabbing in the Auckland suburb of Māngere Bridge.

The Rental Vehicle Association has urged motorists to be cautious on the roads, as cold winter days are making conditions challenging.

The government will require councils to use fewer road cones, or miss out on government funding for roads.

A lawyer who slapped a junior male colleague on the bottom and touched a female colleague’s lower back during a social function has been censured.