Wellington's water company has revealed it stopped adding fluoride to the water supply last year.

South Westland businesses say the border reopening dates mean they can start edging out of survival mode after two years of hanging on by their fingernails.

Help is now at the fingertips with a new online wedding day tool which enables photographers, makeup artists and celebrants to quickly find replacements if they get sick.

After weeks of stories of stresses from the shop floor because of doctor and nurse shortages, the true extent has been revealed.

Earlier this week the Director General of Health said nearly 80 percent of sequenced Covid-19 cases are BA.2. What impact will it have on the current outbreak and will a new vaccine be necessary?

Two students are in Dunedin Hospital after falling off a roof and a balcony of separate flats during celebrations in the city.

Contractor pay in the public service has rates ranging from close to the minimum wage on helpdesks to as high as $185 an hour in IT - or almost $1500 a day, before tax.

Ten deaths - including a person in their 30s - have been reported in today's Ministry of Health statistics, along with 19,566 new cases.

Five wards at Middlemore Hospital are now dedicated to Covid-19 patients, with one-third of hospital admissions clearly because of Covid. Watch the latest update from Auckland health authorities here.

New Zealanders wanting to know how protected they are against Covid-19 infection could soon be able to have their immunity levels measured at their local pharmacy.

Taupō police say they are making good progress with the homicide investigation into the death of Ryan Woodford.

The shortage of clinicians is putting strain on many clinics, but more vets are hoped to arrive in the country soon, Veterinary Association chief executive Kevin Bryant says.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Ministers Kelvin Davis, Jan Tinetti, and Aupito William Sio launched the Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum at Sylvia Park School.

Ratepayers in Tasman may have to cover the cost of the Waimea Dam's latest $20 million overrun.

Twenty years after Nicholas Pike was murdered, his body hasn't been found and the man convicted of killing him is still trying to clear his name, Jimmy Ellingham reports.

In a major u-turn, the police watchdog has found constant, late-night checks on Shargin Stephens were unreasonable and may have contributed to him lashing out, before police fatally shot him.

The Director-General of Health says Auckland's hospital cases have likely peaked, but he thinks the hospitalisation number will creep above 1000 as the rest of the country catches up.

A 77-year-old woman who was stuck in Australia because of border restrictions says she feels hurt at her pension being stopped and receiving a demand to repay more than $11,000.