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China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to eliminate COVID entirely earlier in the pandemic. But all eventually abandoned this approach because of the mounting social and economic costs and the…

New Zealand needs a robust debate about the success of its elimination strategy in 2020, and the messy failure in late 2021

New Zealand high court case has become a focus of protests from anti-vaxxers

Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address the accelerating pace of species loss and the dangers of ecosystem breakdown.

Fans of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit can stay in a hobbit hole as imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien and realised by Sir Peter Jackson, courtesy of Russell Alexander, general manager of Hobbiton Movie Set Tours in New Zealand

PM says abusive behaviour from the public has become worse during her time as leader, but she’s not willing to accept it’s permanent.

Looking overseas for an organ transplant may be faster for Kiwis in need - but it comes with ethical issues about how exactly a 'donation' was made, according to campaigners.

Newly-published studies show consumers overseas would pay more for low environmental impact food, if we offered it to them. The depressing thing is, old research said pretty much the same thing.

It was once one of the nation's biggest industries. Now this Christchurch clothing factory is among the last of its kind.