Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is urging people to stay home, after Auckland was put in a level 3 lockdown this morning and the rest of New Zealand placed at alert level 2.

One year on from the first Covid-19 case announced in New Zealand, RNZ takes a day-by-day look back at the unfolding of the pandemic in this country.

There is one new community case of Covid-19 linked to the February cluster.

A Napier bar owner says a shooting that left one of his staff injured is a product of the worst gang tensions he's ever seen.

Police will get involved if people are breaching the rules of self-isolating, says the prime minister, as Auckland is locked down after confirmed community cases did not follow the guidelines.

The Auckland Lantern Festival has been cancelled this year after the region moved to alert level 3 this morning.

The Banks Peninsula town of Akaroa is still being told to boil water and local businesses are worried it is scaring off customers.

Hutt City Council is trialling a new cycling route through the central city, in one of Waka Kotahi's more substantial 'Innovating Streets' programmes.

Eight people were taken to hospital, including one in a critical condition, from the Electric Avenue music festival yesterday.

Several thousand pastries and loaves of bread were destined for the bin until an Auckland bakery put out a call to the community to help.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is urging people to stay home and for anyone with symptoms to immediately get tested.

A free concert in Christchurch's botanic gardens as part of the city's earthquake commemorations went ahead as an online-only event today, with Bic Runga headlining. Watch it here.

A 31-year-old man has died after a stabbing in Eastern Bay of Plenty early this morning.

Vaping shop window displays are "not problematic" and would be allowed to continue under proposed new rules.

Auckland is back at alert level 3 this morning, while the rest of the country has moved to alert level 2 following two new Covid-19 community cases that could not be directly linked to earlier cases.

Checkpoints have been set up at Auckland's borders, as the city begins another alert level 3 lockdown today.

Some houses taking part in the Earthquake Commission's on-sold programme have so much damage that it is more economical to build a new home.

The Taranaki Regional Council has no regrets about taking prosecutions that resulted in $600,000 in fines being dished out in the Environment Court this week.