16+ hour, 17+ min ago  (421+ words) Doctors issued the warning after 2025's record season, during which more than half a million Australians were infected and 1738 killed, outstripping Covid-19 deaths for the first time since the pandemic. Almost 29, 000 Australians have already contracted flu in 2026, barely half the…...

5+ hour, 29+ min ago  (459+ words) It doesn't take a maths degree to determine that would eliminate more than 85% of this week's 91-player field from winning the 90th edition of the'Masters'Tournament. Told of Reed's assessment, Bryson De Chambeau quipped, "I hope I'm one of those 12. That would…...

6+ hour, 23+ min ago  (1013+ words) WARNING: This story is about suicide and may be distressing A teen who had dreams of becoming a policeman took his own life just hours after he was sexually extorted online. Now the 18-year-old's death has triggered renewed warnings for…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago  (336+ words) Pharmac has announced funding for two drug combinations to treat a kind of blood cancer. From May 1, people with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, or CLL, would be able to access combination treatments of venetoclax with either ibrutinib or obinutuzumab. Pharmac would…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (395+ words) Gwen Grimm (nee Roy) of Riversdale was on the organising committee for the reunion. About 60 women were enrolled in the three-year course, Mrs Grimm said. She had heard it described as "a good meal ticket because it opened the door…...

7+ hour, 51+ min ago  (463+ words) The club, which celebrates its jubilee next month," was founded in 1886, only a few years after the first New Zealand rugby union was formed in Canterbury. By the 1950s, it needed team headquarters, so members rolled up their sleeves and assembled…...

7+ hour, 54+ min ago  (399+ words) The family were recognised for transforming their property in Merino Downs into a highly efficient, diversified farming business, Top Deck Trading, with strong environmental and succession planning foundations. Since purchasing two neighbouring farms in 2017, the family had developed the combined…...

7+ hour, 40+ min ago  (407+ words) By Susan Edmunds of RNZ Kiwi Saver providers are hoping news of a ceasefire in the Iran conflict may give investment markets more support. Sharemarkets lifted on the announcement that US President Donald Trump was willing to enter a ceasefire…...

20+ hour, 15+ min ago  (483+ words) After serving the Dunedin community for more than 120 years, the Victoria League in Otago has been wound up. League president Christine Bell said the end had become a reality when the organisation simply ran out of people to run it....

20+ hour, 15+ min ago  (667+ words) St Kevin's College principal Jo Walshe wants to limit media coverage while internal disciplinary processes at schools are under way, arguing this would "better protect students' privacy and wellbeing. The restrictions would be intended to be similar to the protections…...