The Prime Minster reveals his "ambitious" targets, heavy downpours expected across the South Island and why a brand new $300 million hospital ward is sitting empty.
1 Tasered dogs: Calls for vet care after police stun 144 animals
Police have used Tasers on dogs well over a hundred times over the last decade, with animals left without veterinary care despite calls from animal welfare groups for a change in policy.
Footage obtained by 1News shows officers firing probes into dogs, sending electric shocks through their bodies and leaving them convulsing in pain.
2 Christopher Luxon reveals 'Government targets' delivered over next two terms
The Prime Minister has announced nine new targets for his Government, which he says are "ambitious" and put a "focus on delivery".
Luxon said his ministers had made "great progress" but they were "under no illusion about the scale of the challenges we face as a country".
3 New Zealand Post to end rural parcel and newspaper deliveries on Saturdays
Posties will no longer deliver newspapers and parcels to most rural parts of the country on Saturdays from June this year.
NZ Post's chief operating officer Brendon Main said services to rural areas on Saturdays are "not commercially viable".
4 Heavy downpours expected across most of the country this week
A series of fronts moving in from the Tasman Sea are expected to bring "significant heavy downpours" for most of the country, beginning today.
5 Southland farm and owner fined for exploiting Indonesian migrant workers
The Labour Inspectorate's Simon Humphries said this was a "deliberate and systemic exploitation" that was "unforgivable".
"These workers came to this country in search of a better life but they were taken advantage of by those they trusted," he said.
ONE MYSTERY AT AN AUCKLAND HOSPITAL
Lights are on and hospital beds are in place in the four-storey, 150-bed Tōtara Haumaru building — but it could be months before there are patients.
The brand new $300 million surgical building, the size of a provincial hospital, is sitting empty on the grounds of North Shore Hospital. Its opening has been delayed and no new date has been set.
ONE THING WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) affects about half of all women and can lead to painful sex and incontinence. A lot of the time it’s preventable and mostly fixable, but our cultural shame around “private parts” is really helping no one. Nats Levi reports.
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