Case numbers dropped slightly today to 20 new in the community, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a deal with Denmark to bring 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine here.

Police are criticising a couple who used their essential worker status to get to Hamilton and then flew to their holiday home in Wanaka.

Gale force winds are playing havoc in parts of Canterbury this afternoon, with power out to thousands of homes.

A Taihape farmer who helped win an apology over lost land from the Ministry of Education says it is little consolation.

With dozens of cases added to the outbreak and the mayor predicting a longer lockdown, it's time for some diversions from Delta.

The number of new community cases in New Zealand has dropped back to 20 cases today.

Watch - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a new deal with Denmark for 500,000 more doses of the Pfizer vaccine, watch the government's latest update here.

A young woman whose body was found at a property in Manurewa yesterday afternoon is still to be identified, police say.

An Auckland couple crossed the alert level 4 border with essential worker exemptions then flew from Hamilton to their holiday home in Wanaka, police say. See how the day's Covid-19 news unfolded with RNZ's blog.

Aucklanders are answering the call to get vaccinated with more than 26,000 receiving a dose yesterday.

What happens if your bubble includes dozens of other people? Michelle Cooke checked in with a transitional housing facility and an intentional community to find out how they are managing lockdown.

Three people including a five-month-old baby who presented to Middlemore Hospital this week have tested positive for Covid 19, Ministry of Health says.

Fire and Emergency has yet to plug a gap over who should test for toxic smoke and warn the public.

All 15 patients and six staff at a men's mental-health hospital in Auckland were able to evacuate safely when a fire broke out last night.

Case numbers have risen with some unlinked cases causing concern; military staff challenge a vaccine directive and anxiety over policing hospital visitors.

An Instagram account set up by three Blenheim teenagers in 2018 has become a huge hit.

A 75-year-old man has died following a crash in the Hutt Valley.

Former RNZ reporter Rae Lamb was in New York on the day of the September 11, 2001, attacks and found herself "bearing witness".