Health

[ad_1] Firefighters will work through the night to deal with any outbreak after a massive fire on Lake Ōhau destroyed 5,360 hectares and damaged 46 homes. New Zealand Fire Incident and Emergency Controller (Fenz) Rob Hands said a drone equipped with an infrared camera would be deployed Monday night to …

[ad_1] Jacinda Ardern Says New Zealand Has ‘Beat Coronavirus Again’ After Second Covid-19 Wave Is Contained New Zealand to relax COVID-19 restrictions after overcoming Auckland outbreak Jacinda Ardern announced Monday that Auckland would return to ‘level one’ The city has been 10 days without community transmission of the virus By …

[ad_1] The long awaited boxing match between Joseph Parker and Junior Fa is ready to continue. The camps agreed on the terms with an official announcement expected tomorrow. There are a few small loose ends to piece together, but the Herald understands that promoters are looking for a fight in …

[ad_1] New Zealand could have the most rainbow parliament in world history after this month’s general election. Speaking at a loud Labor campaign event at Wellington’s gay bar Ivy, the party’s rainbow representative, Paul Stevens, predicted a rainbow MPs sweep through parliament and attacked National for lack of sexual diversity. …

[ad_1] SUPPLIED / Stuff Tamati Coffey, a Labor MP from the Waiariki electorate, said she struggled with outdated adoption laws when her son was born by surrogacy. Labor would ban conversion therapy and provide gender-neutral toilets in public schools as part of a set of LGBTQ + policies announced Monday. …

[ad_1] In 2018, two petitions were presented to Parliament calling for a ban on conversion therapy. The Justice Select Committee responded at the time by saying that while there was agreement that conversion therapy was harmful, “more work needs to be done” before any decision is made to ban it. …

[ad_1] Medical experts are criticizing the president of the United States, Donald Trump, as “crazy” and “irresponsible” for leaving the hospital and surprising his followers, days after he tested positive for Covid-19. Trump briefly left the hospital this morning to greet supporters in his caravan, despite the president’s medical team …

[ad_1] One of Wellington’s major commuter roads will be reduced to one lane for two years while repair work is carried out at the site of a major slip. But before work begins on the Ngaio Gorge Rd ramp, the lizards along the banks will be relocated to the other …

[ad_1] A Waikato woman in her 80s was left without a bladder and is in an extremely weak state after two GPs ignored the alarming signs of her cancer for three years. An oncologist has said that her cancer was likely found three years earlier and that her treatment would …

[ad_1] Auckland will go to alert level 1 on Wednesday at 11:59 pm, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. That means there are no limits to gatherings and the removal of social distancing requirements at restaurants and bars. Masks are not required on public transportation at alert level 1, but Ardern …