An Aucklander who spent six minutes at a store where a Covid-19 case was working had to wait nearly eight hours on the phone to get advice from Healthline.

An evening shopping trip has ground life to a halt for more than 1200 shoppers, yet the ever-widening net of contact categories in Auckland's Covid-19 response is stirring up confusion.

A man has been shot and critically injured by police in Auckland after officers responded to reports of gunfire in the suburb of Papatoetoe.

Air New Zealand's boss says he expects extra funding from the government to go ahead smoothly and that its best-case scenario for financial recovery is a Transtasman travel bubble by July.

Former Wellington mayors are backing the imcumbent's decision to hold an independent investigation into council dysfunction and governance.

A Judge presiding over the trial of a man accused of operating an e-scooter carelessly or inconsiderately causing injury has reserved his decision.

Twenty-eight people received the first of their two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at a dedicated centre in Hamilton.

A review that has found a charitable trust guilty of high costs and a lack of transparency has been labelled strange and ridiculous.

A Waikato doctor wants to know where promised funding for mental health has gone, after it was pledged by the Prime Minister at his practice.

Campaigners and advocates are hailing the government's move to allow thousands of people with life-shortening conditions early access to their Kiwisaver funds.

A 12-year-old who went missing from her home in Christchurch on Thursday afternoon has been found.

The man who led the review into the dysfunctional Tauranga City Council before it was taken over by a commissioner has been appointed to lead the review into Wellington's council.

Tourism Minister Stuart Nash has described a report detailing widespread job losses in Franz Josef and Fox Glacier as sobering but won't say what additional support they may get.

Ski field operators are urging New Zealanders to spend their winter in a mountain town to fill the gap left behind by international workers as the ski season nears.

Police in Tāmaki Makaurau-Auckland have seized guns, drugs and cash after searching properties in Counties Manukau this morning.

Police say they have cracked down on gangs in Wairoa in northern Hawke's Bay, arresting 15 people after tensions rose this year.

Police are appealing for a man involved in a stabbing in Alexandra last night to hand himself in.

Queenstown residents are struggling to access mental health support, according to a new community-led report.