Auckland could achieve the new vaccination target before the end of November, an expert says, but it may take the rest of the country a bit longer.

The family that won Lotto's second-largest ever prize had no idea they were the lucky recipients when they first heard the news.

51 people with Covid-19 are in hospital - the most since the Delta outbreak began - as hospitals nationally are 85 per cent full.

Ten-month investigation into sale and supply of methamphetamine executed with search warrants across the country.

The shake, which struck during the Covid-19 update on Friday, was centred in Taumarunui – but those directly above barely felt it.

The Government will move to a new traffic-light system replacing full lockdowns when it hits a new vaccine target in every DHB.

Specials may be less about rewarding customers and more about letting suppliers know who's boss, confectionery firm tells regulator.

It's not the first time a bucket has been taken in the dead of night and now the city wants it back.

Jonathan Stephens was a tutor employed at the Auckland boarding school and has admitting sexually abusing two boys in his care.

Farmers are fizzing at the thought of tariff-free exports, but what's in store for the rest of us?

Afghan soldiers who worked side-by-side with SAS troops are now being "hunted by the Taliban" in Kabul.

NZ will shift to a new "traffic light" system once 90 per cent of eligible people in each DHB are double-jabbed. The plan is much more cautious than many other countries' approaches.

Fire crews had to suspend aerial efforts on the hills of Naenae due to the danger caused by a drone being flown, but the blaze has now been contained.

About 62 per cent of the eligible Canterbury population is fully vaccinated. Among people aged 12 to 34, that number drops to just 43 per cent.

With 7 per cent of tests positive, residents of Redvale on Auckland's North Shore are flummoxed at how Covid-19 has spread in the small rural suburb.

The father of the 15-year-old, who died from brain cancer last week, says the family is “so proud and so sad at same time” with the huge sum she raised.

Auckland's three DHBs have been set a Covid-19 vaccination target of hitting 90 per cent double doses. They currently range from 71-79 per cent.

GAS in Dargaville and Countdown and Mobil in Kaikohe were all visited by people with Covid-19 in the past week.

Some will get the Covid-19 vaccine to protect children too young to have it. For others, "no jab, no job, no fun" will be the nudge they need.

Pregnant Aucklander Roshni Sami has won the battle to get her husband home. But she's vowing not to give up on her fight to make pregnancy an MIQ priority.