Epidemiologist says he suggested his nearly 80-year-old parents stay home when Omicron becomes endemic.

Three were affected by fumes in a tank which was being cleaned.

Sean Berridge-Burley, who had already been trespassed from the New World, approached the worker while gesticulating with his middle finger and yelling abuse.

A nine-year-old girl seriously injured in Papua New Guinea is now facing new complications due to a delay in surgery.

Quick action to distress call sees five people pulled from water and boat saved too.

A lost butterfly seeks asylum, a goldfish found on a front lawn gets adopted, and a man and his dog walk into a strip club.

One person has died and another is seriously injured after a crash in New Plymouth.

Phil Rickard says he will never stay in emergency housing again, after being threatened and harrassed.

Mason was the inaugural Ngāti Waewae representative between 1996 and 2001 and was also a former director and chairperson of Ngāi Tahu Holdings.

Communications have improved enough for Malakai Fekitoa to speak to sisters in Tonga, but still nothing from his island Ha’apai where his mum lives.

Five crews and a helicopter were on-site on Monday – one each from Whanganui, Horowhenua and three from the Wellington area.

Juliana Cayena Bonilla Herrera, 37, was found dead in her Addington home on Saturday night.

Cook Islands government meet to discuss the future of quarantine-free travel with New Zealand after the spread of commnity cases.

A Covid-19 lockdown forced workers to down tools allowing hundreds of at-risk gulls to set up nests, delaying construction of a Canterbury stormwater basin.

Some sporting events will go ahead under the red traffic light setting as defiant organisers hope their plans will not fall foul of Covid-19.

Taranaki's annual festival of classic American cars has been stopped by the Red traffic light.

“Good old fashioned police work” has led to the arrest of a second man in connection with a petrol station ram raid at Eltham and the robbery of a Hāwera dairy on January 11.

Some of Auckland’s upcoming sporting events will go ahead while others are in doubt as the red traffic light setting brings gathering restrictions.

Edward O'Neill survived the bloody Western Front, died in custody after assaulting a young girl, then lay in unmarked grave in Napier for 80 years.

With approved respirators costing up to $10 per mask, keeping yourself safe from Omicron looks to be a costly exercise. But not necessarily, say experts.