New Zealand First has raised concerns about the government's Gene Tech bill, and says it will not support the bill into law without further major changes.
The father of a Christchurch cyclist killed in a collision with a concrete truck assumed the driver was at fault and would most likely be going through “some kind of hell”.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held in Gaza for a third day ahead of the expected release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners and an address by US President Donald Trump to Israel's parliament.
The family of a young man killed when a phone-distracted truckie ran into the back of his work ute say her release after serving just nine months in prison is "impossible to comprehend".
The coalition has missed an opportunity to price agricultural methane emissions, as it moves to slash the country's biogenic methane target, a climate scientist says.