Government ministers have confirmed they are considering measures to move homeless people out of Auckland's city centre.

A Waikato policeman who pepper-sprayed a speeding motorist three times for not handing over his car keys will now have to pay his victim $1000.

Housing advocates are worried officials may be planning to push rough sleepers out of central Auckland.

Boulders balancing on small wheels, palm trees hanging five metres in the air and monkey bars at odd angles - Dunedin-born designer Mike Hewson creates some gnarly spaces.

New drugs targeting weight loss and diabetes management can help lower the number of young people affected by type 2 diabetes, a paediatrician says.

Opinion pieces have been published about the standoff between police and Stuff, after the news website posted police audio from the night fugitive dad Tom Phillips was shot dead.

Draft school curriculums contain less Māori because they are more specific about what teachers should teach, the Ministry of Education says.