Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is confident the country can remain coronavirus free when a one-way travel bubble opens next week.

Eden Park will be able to hold up to six concerts a year, after a panel of three independent commissioners decided adverse effects can be avoided or mitigated.

Much younger patients are becoming very ill very fast, says a New Zealand nurse working in Britain on the frontline of the response to the new UK variant of Covid-19.

A Kapiti Coast local is frustrated about the number of Canada geese that he says are edging out native birds on a popular lake.

The likely cause of death is warm, low oxygen inflows of ponded floodwater from surrounding farmland, Fish and Game says.

The 16-year-old charged in relation to an online threat that resulted in Wellington High School going into lockdown remains on bail with 24 hour supervision.

A woman says she was left shaken and humiliated after her lifejacket was pulled off by a staff member at a water park in Auckland.

There have been 18 new cases of Covid-19 reported in managed isolation in New Zealand since Wednesday.

Passengers from the Cook Islands will resume quarantine-free travel into New Zealand from next week, the two governments have confirmed.

Beachgoers are being urged to report any sighting of a toxic weed as they soak up the sunshine this summer.

Police are arming themselves again in Canterbury from today as gang tensions increase.

International Art Centre director Richard Thomson says the thieves may not have known the value of the treasured Charles Goldie painting when they took it.

The number of Emergency Housing Special Needs Grants given out by the Ministry of Social Development has jumped from 4000 to just short of 10,000 in two years.

Christmas has come late for Dunedin Botanic Gardens, as a tall, slender beauty is priming itself to bloom again, years ahead of schedule.

New Zealand's first kauri dieback sniffer dogs are ready to get to work in the fight against the spread of kauri dieback in the Auckland region.

The warm and sunny spell is set to end, as rain, wind and cooler temperatures are forecast for much of the country this weekend and early next week.

Gay, lesbian or bisexual people are more than twice as likely to suffer from sexual violence or family harm than their heterosexual counterparts.

Southlanders are expressing relief after a deal was reached to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open.