Stories by Natalie Akoorie

Melaina Huaki attended only two-thirds of the meetings she was scheduled to be at, and resigned after RNZ asked why.

She lived at the rehabilitation home after suffering a traumatic head injury in a car crash last year, police say.

Councillor Geoff Taylor called the app a luxury at a time when ratepayers were facing the biggest rate increase in two decades.

Jonathan Beau Hall forged his supervisors' signatures - and a judge estimates the cost of his fraud to be in the millions.

An engineer who forged the signatures of higher qualified colleagues is to be sentenced in the Rotorua District Court.

Disruption to patient care from a nationwide junior doctors strike is bordering on unsafe, a senior doctor claims, despite what health officials say.

Waikato Museum will close for renovations for months after it failed to secure national and international exhibits because of humidity and temperature control issues.

More than 200 people signed a petition, calling for the government to continue funding the service.

The midwifery programme at the University of Waikato hopes to address the region's 50 percent midwife shortfall.

Residents in the small King Country town of Te Kūiti are concerned the community could lose its only ambulance.

Advocacy groups say the train service is "developing well", but the transport minister says it's one of NZ's most heavily subsidised public transport services.

A small town school production is reaching for the stars with For Today, a musical featuring iconic Kiwi songs from a golden era in New Zealand music.

The legislation requires such significant reform it needs to be replaced, the Law Commission says.

Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has also rejected the commission's recommendation that a Crown observer be put in place.

The discovery of vulnerable prisoners being locked inside their cells for up to two days at time, for as long as nine months, has alarmed lawyers. Audio

A man charged over a hit and run incident that left a teenager in a critical condition has failed in his bid for bail.

A coroner's inquest into a mountain biker's death in 2022 has found there was no warning of the danger and difficulty of the trail where the man suffered fatal injuries.

The owner did not provide proper heating, hot water nor kitchen facilities, but charged ex-prisoners high bonds.

Hamilton's mayor will travel to Belgium for Anzac Day at the same time the city's residents are facing their biggest rates rise in two decades.

Neighbours say the shipping container art site is a "one-finger" salute to council.

The outcome is three years too late for the educator, who says the allegations and investigation destroyed her career.

As Local Democracy Reporting begins a new chapter, here's a look at some of the best stories and their impact since the project's inception in October 2019.

A cyber security breach that brought Waikato District Health Board to its knees took out one of the country's four regional cancer hubs, prompting the Cancer Control Agency to declare a national…

The cost of managing an invasive "super weed", if it is not eradicated during construction of a billion-dollar Waikato development including 2500 new houses, will fall to ratepayers.

Waikato District Health Board was warned its IT security was inadequate and severely compromised just months before a massive ransomware attack that brought Waikato Hospital to its knees.