Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says facial recognition technology is only used on photographs of unidentified suspects.

The government is being urged to do more to block people from viewing the video of the 15 March mosque attacks.

The head of Auckland's $4.4 billion City Rail Link says he is unable to give a firm finish date for the project due to the uncertainty created by Covid-19.

Aucklanders appear to be giving public transport a wide berth as the hangover from four lockdowns continues to linger.

The prominent businessman accused of indecently assaulting three young men says he never got into, or onto, a bed with one of the complainants.

Air New Zealand has admitted a plane carrying international returnees then picked up domestic passengers before being deep cleaned.

The men were moored inside a mussel farm and had 99 snapper in their possession. The daily limit is seven snapper per person.

Tickets will go on sale for the 2022 Warbirds over Wanaka a year after the major airshow cancelled its upcoming show due to the pandemic.

Data on Friday's second earthquake in the Kermadec Islands has been confirmed as lost due to damage to monitoring equipment on Raoul Island.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says he should not have accepted free tickets to a Black Caps match.

A witness in the Red Fox Tavern murder trial says he offered to help police in their original investigation and wore a recording device when he met up with one of the accused.

Police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman was found dead at a property in Pukekohe yesterday.

There are six new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation facilities today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.

The government has extended the temporary medicinal cannabis regulations to help with a continued supply of products.

An investigation into a man's claims that he had been threatened and intimidated by police in Dunedin has found they were baseless.

The captain of a superyacht denied entry to New Zealand has confirmed a crew member returned a weak positive result for Covid-19 on arrival in Fiji at the weekend.

East Otago residents are "a good way down the track" in emerging from a crisis that saw a string of high lead level readings in their drinking water, their medical officer of health says.

The expert panel is the next step in the police development of a policy on the use of emerging technologies.