A day on, more than 5000 people are still without power in Bay of Plenty and more than 2000 in the Coromandel, Thames, Waihi and South Waikato areas combined.

After two terms as mayor of Auckland, Phil Goff isn't seeking re-election. The past six years have been a rocky road.

Kerikeri locals are angry the ramps, which only opened in December, have been vandalised with spray-painted penises.

Police urged protesters to move their vehicles to free parking at Sky Stadium on Monday night to minimise disruption but few take up the offer straight away.

Large scale, unregulated food prep and poor sanitation could see E. coli rip through the tent city at Parliament, as the anti-mandate protest enters a second week.

Police in New Plymouth have launched a murder investigation after a 48-year-old woman was found dead at her home

Sergeant Steven Repko admitted damaging a P-3K Orion, signed off maintenance documents without assuring their accuracy, and swore at comrades.

Dr Michelle Mulvihill said any time questions were asked about the abuse and how it was allowed to happen, the questions were shut down as being "brothers' business".

Four times over the limit, a driver "bantered" with police, telling them he liked to drink.

Cyclone Dovi has left 5000 homes in Auckland and almost 12,500 homes in Taranaki and Bay of Plenty are still without power on Monday.

The Government responds to huge upswing in community cases with phase 2 of the Omicron response, centred on shortening the period of isolation and more use of RATs.

Emergency services were called to an assault on Glue Pl in Somerfield just after 6pm on Monday.

Matthew Myers was shocked when he was spat at through his driver's window, trying to pass through one of Wellington's main bus routes.

A kitchen has sprung up near Parliament - just one of the ways protesters are sustaining themselves.

One hospitality owner has been forced to close nine out of their 11 venues as staff isolate, with the start of phase 2 expected to make little difference.

Seventy-five new cases have been identified in the past three days, including at a hospital and a prison.

Government shrinks isolation period and ups use of rapid tests as Covid-19 case numbers shoot up.

There will be far more use of rapid antigen testing and isolation periods shorten.

Most of the affected schools, 93, are in Auckland with 44 of them being primary schools.

The case had tested negative before flying to Rarotonga from Auckland last week.