Many isolated communities are getting their Covid-19 vaccinations before the general public to reduce complexities.

Searches by boat and air have failed to find a pod of orca that was spotted in Wellington region waters earlier today.

Impacts of the Dawn Raids still show themselves in form of violence and depression, Polynesian Panther Tigilau Ness says. He's calling for the government's apology to be a full acknowledgement of what was done to Pacific Islanders.

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An evaluation report released by the Crown and the Auckland Council shows almost double that money - $292.7m - was lost when assessing the Cup on a purely benefit-cost analysis.

Southern DHB is today celebrating administering 100,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine across Otago and Southland.

There are six new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation and none in the community today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.

A body was found in hot pools in Rotorua this morning and the police are making enquiries on behalf of the coroner.

All non-urgent surgery for children at Christchurch Hospital has been halted as climbing numbers of patients with respiratory illnesses stretch resources.

New Zealand has put itself in a vulnerable position by joining other Western allies and Japan in accusing China of state-sponsored cyber attacks, an intelligence analyst says.

A childcare centre and a building on a marae have been evacuated following the discovery of explosive material in a Nelson park.

New Zealanders can no longer rely on flood protection barriers in the face of heavier rains, an expert warns, as hundreds of Westport residents' homes have been deemed uninhabitable following devastating floods.

The theft of his name led a Pacific Island boy down a path of state care, where he was abused.

Nine crew members on a container ship docked in a quarantine area of Bluff port have tested positive for Covid-19.

The organisation in charge of managing hunting and fishing has come out strongly against plans to modernise it and reduce its size.

The government's first-ever plan for upgrading hundreds of unfit - and sometimes unsafe - hospital facilities is encountering a lot of delays.

Animal welfare group SAFE is taking the government to court in an effort to have rodeo events halted.

A backpackers' hostel in the flood-ravaged West Coast town of Westport has been gutted by fire.