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When a teenager was rushed to a rural hospital after a 2014 car crash, staff thought she was drunk.

Forest and Bird have welcomed applications for small tour groups to view marine mammals around the Otago Harbour and peninsula.

The Greens are tackling the issue of waste on day two of the party's annual conference, and are set to get tougher on those dumping tyres and lithium batteries.

In a bid to claw back from one of its greatest criticisms, the Green Party says it has government support to include water extraction rules in the next review of the Overseas Investment Act.

Pioneering magazine editor Warwick Roger has died at the age of 72.

A first-of-its-kind University of Otago study has found more people are being prescribed antipsychotics, and older women are most likely to receive the medications. 

A second nurse in Samoa has been arrested and charged with manslaughter over the death of two babies following their MMR vaccines.

Tui are being seen in the port town of Lyttelton for the first time in 40 years.

Alliance Group is under fire over a decision to bring in 100 overseas workers for its Southland plants.

Forest & Bird is calling for a ban on the sale of whitebait as the season kicks off for most of the country today.

Parliament's referee Trevor Mallard is to decide today whether to launch a full-scale investigation into who leaked National leader Simon Bridges' travel bill.

A man accused of delivering a single, fatal punch to an innocent bystander at an Auckland house party has been found not guilty.

An Australian neurologist says the way Pharmac's criteria for continuing access to drugs for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are too old, and not based on evidence.