The seven-day rolling average of Covid-19 cases has risen more than 60 percent since September, while hospitalisation and death rates are increasing with a third wave underway.

One person has died after a three-vehicle crash in Southland.

Justice might be blind, but it's also usually notoriously expensive, with lawyer's fees and court administration mounting quickly into the tens of thousands.

Costs are rising and time is slipping on a new system to enable tolls to be charged on more roads.

More families are set to qualify for subsidies to cover the cost of childcare, but early learning centres are hoping more support will be announced for them, too.

A search for a kayaker missing in the Firth of Thames since Saturday enter its third day on Tuesday morning.

A radiologist at Hawke's Bay Hospital failed to pick up a woman's lung cancer, which officials say was only a symptom of wider problems at the hospital.

Work is set to begin on a $15 million community health centre in Hamilton which will bring preventative care to Māori.

Auckland deputy mayor Desley Simpson says it is not her intention to burden ratepayers with steep rates rises to combat a tripling of the council's budget shortfall.

A Whangārei Girls High School student is asking Parliament to help feed about 300 of her peers she says are turning up without any food, each day.

Shouting, wailing, and threats forced security to break up aggression at a murder trial this afternoon, with the judge, defendants, jury, and members of the public hurried out of the court.

A late night rescue of a trail runner has highlighted the importance of personal locator beacons.

The principal of a south Auckland school has confirmed one of their pupils is the person missing after a boating tragedy on Manukau Harbour.

Three people have been rescued from a small island in the Croisilles Harbour in the Marlborough Sounds after their forty-foot yacht sunk.

A newborn's brain injury caused by lack of oxygen at birth might have been prevented if the midwife in charge had recognised and acted on signs of the baby's distress.

Pharmac says tamariki are now able to receive a newly funded vaccine against pneumococcal infections.

There are 20,802 new cases of Covid-19 in the community and 322 people in hospital this week, the Ministry of Health has announced.

A climate finance expert says it is only right that rich countries should pay poor ones for the damage of more than a century of belching climate gases.