Unions representing healthcare workers have hit back at the Ministry of Health's announcement that critical healthcare workers can return to work six days earlier if they have two negative rapid antigen tests.

A new dog control bylaw in New Plymouth has got canine lovers in a spin.

Auckland mayor Phil Goff says he has tested positive for Covid-19.

They say the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but one Rotorua pensioner just wants the council to mow her berm.

The Ministry of Health is reporting 23,894 new cases of Covid-19, with 9881 in Auckland.

The United States' Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has today raised its travel advisory warning on travel to New Zealand.

The man whose death is being investigated after he died at a motel in Taupō last Sunday has been named.

A local community trust has called on Hamilton City Council and the Local Government Commission to implement community boards into the most marginalised suburbs.

Hospitals around the country are feeling the pressure as more Covid-19 patients need care while many doctors and nurses are off work isolating.

Protesters illegally camped at Christchurch's Cranmer Square for nearly four weeks have been asked to leave by Thursday.

Much of New Zealand is one or two weeks behind Auckland's Covid-19 curve, and the country might experience two peaks of hospitalisations, a data modeller says.

A homeless mother of six young children and a newborn baby says she had no option but to pitch a tent in a Hawke's Bay park during a storm after Work and Income refused to help her.

More trucks are being fitted with safety systems, and handbrake testing is changing, to guard against potentially fatal rollaways.

Doctors are stepping in to cover some nursing duties as staff absences reach a critical point at Middlemore Hospital.

Two Covid-infected women who put Te Tai Tokerau into a 12-day lockdown and hid from police won't be charged.

Hawke's Bay Hospital has had to scale back some of its services and operations, as the number of Covid patients in the hospital grows.

Some homes in Porirua may be raised, relocated or bought-out as the city grapples with its flood-prone future.

St John and Wellington Free Ambulance are asking the public to only phone 111 for an ambulance in "genuine emergencies".