RNZ

A Southland community's plan to tackle growing gang and drug issues has been welcomed by a leading gang expert.

The Speaker of the House has told the government to front up with personal emails between former minister Clare Curran and technology entrepreneur Derek Handley.

One person has been injured following an ammonia leak at a Canterbury processing plant.

Dairy giant Fonterra is expected to post a substantial annual loss when it releases its financial results on Thursday, but as much attention will be on its future plans as on the numbers.

Packaging and other material that's been put in soft plastic recycling bins has ended up in storage, because the Australian company that was taking it has been inundated.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is defending her stance on a number of issues that have come to the forefront over the past two weeks, including the decision not to preemptively release former minister Clare Curran's private emails.

Vietnam war veterans say old wounds, over the way they were treated on their return to New Zealand, have reopened after they were denied access to a recent repatriation ceremony.

An oncologist says there's no reason why NZ women with advanced stages of breast cancer should have shorter survival rates and lower quality of life than their Australian counterparts.