Halfway through the Government's financial year its deficit at just under $1 billion was $381 million smaller than forecast last December.

"I can't sleep at night because I'm scared a white-tail spider's going to sting me, or bite me." An Auckland family has had enough of spider bites.

About nine people each day receive head injuries from falls in their home, according to ACC claim data.

Finn Drummond's eyes have survived not one but two freak accidents, increasing the risk of long-term damage to his sight.

New figures show ACC paid $49.1 million in compensation for more than 107,000 animal-related incidents in the past two years.

Jane Watts said last goodbyes to her severely injured husband five times and could only have dreamed she would spend another Christmas with him.

The child injury prevention service of Starship Children's Health and Auckland Council rangers have come up with a list of the city's safest, child-friendliest, parks for the sunshine months

A report is calling for tighter controls on children operating off-road vehicles following the deaths of 22 children at the controls since 2002.

For most of us, the worst thing about Christmas and New Year feasts is the excessive amount of food we gorge over the festive season.

Pumpkin Patch shares hit another record low yesterday as investors continued to punish the company after a dark annual meeting.

The death of a 22-year-old student who fell from his skateboard and suffered a fatal head injury has been referred to the coroner.

Bungled handling of a secret government report has revealed alarming levels of fraud at the Accident Compensation Corporation scheme and in the health sector.

A terrifying roller coaster ride in the sky turned Fuzzy Maiava's life upside down. Six years later, the ride goes on.

She has stood on a rake, fallen down stairs, cut her finger cooking and smashed her head on the corner of a window, but Janet Uttinger says she's not accident prone.

An unnamed ACC employee was paid over $800,000 last year. So who is this person - likely NZ's highest paid public servant?

Australian health insurer Medibank has won a bid to manage sexual abuse claims for the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).

Nearly a quarter of agriculture, forestry, and fishery workers had a work-related injury claim accepted by the Accident Compensation Corporation last year, Statistics New Zealand says.

The Crown's balance sheet expanded to more than $250 billion in the year ended June and its net worth grew 11 per cent to $75.5 billion.

People with chronic health conditions cost the accident compensation system 59 per cent more than healthy people without those conditions, researchers have found.

Hundreds of motorists are falsely registering their cars as ambulances, avoiding more than $200 in fees.

ACC has released a new report which reveals which area of the country makes the most new claims each year - and the most injury-prone region may surprise you.

Most ACC clients who complain about their treatment by the accident insurer believe their grievances have been handled poorly by the corporation, a new Auditor General's report has found.

Labour says it would run a Royal Commission into the public sector to address issues such as ministers' bullying of civil servants and the threat of "creeping corruption".

Motorists will be better off to the tune of $135 a year on average under ACC levy cuts confirmed yesterday.

NZ workers and businesses are to be denied almost $180 million in ACC levy cuts next year as recommended by the corporation, leaving it with an embarrassment of riches.

Kiwi men are clumsier than women, unless they are on a plane, overseas or living on the North Shore or Kapiti Coast.

Tauranga's coroner says "significant and serious failures" in the health care provided at Tauranga Hospital to two patients contributed to their premature deaths.