Community safety promoters put worries about $330,000 reduction to city council.

First it was matchstick-thin models and anorexia. Now the fashion industry is copping flak over big women on the runway.

The Waikato District Health Board has written to parents of children attending schools or early education centres in Te Awamutu advising them of the outbreak, which involved students from a local college.

Papamoa five-year-old Zahnee Campbell has a debilitating birth defect, thought to be the only one of its kind in New Zealand.

Two Australian mothers are having their blood screened after each accidentally breastfed the other's baby.

Bedbugs are back - experts say a plague is affecting hotels, apartments and student housing.

Gill South gets altruistic and donates, not her blood (mad cow issue), but her time to a very good cause.

Foreign patients treated in New Zealand hospitals owe the system at least $19 million.

Northland Health has recorded 298 cases of norovirus, with several patients still being kept in isolation.

The ACC has admitted it has been rejecting too many claimants seeking elective surgery.

Patients being given the wrong prescription occurs "a lot", according to the Health Quality and Safety Commission, but a new system should help prevent cases like the tragic death of Shirley Curtis.

A 60-year-old grandmother died after being given 10 times as much heart medication as she should have been.