More details have emerged about two new community cases, Australia extended its travel bubble suspension, and changes were announced for people staying in managed isolation.

Precious wetlands in Kaikōura that have been drained and degraded for generations, are now being lovingly restored and protected.

A decision to grant consent for the removal row of trees planted by community volunteers along a revitalised waterway in South Auckland has outraged residents.

Waikato Regional Council is having to set up turtle traps as ponds at a Coromandel beach have became inundated with the animals.

New Zealanders can soon dive into history - and remote Fiordland - and explore the country's oldest know shipwreck as part of new documentary series.

A father and his young daughter have been confirmed as the latest two Covid-19 community cases, the Ministry of Health has revealed.

MediaWorks' chief executive, Cam Wallace, has told staff there is no place for John Banks at the media company as long as he is boss.

An alert was in place at at a popular Auckland beach yesterday after a yacht club team's scary first encounter with a 3m-long mako shark.

See how the day's Covid-19 related events unfolded by looking back over RNZ's live blog.

Cameras will be sent into Pike River Mine as part of the police investigation into the 2010 explosion which killed 29 men.

A water main has burst, sending a huge wave of water down central Wellington's Aro Valley.

Watercare says about 24 companies in Auckland each month are caught breaching their trade waste consents, but it won't reveal their names.

The government has highlighted its plans to move on its election promises to clean up transport emissions.

Pfizer says it is committed to getting 1.5 million doses of its vaccine into NZ this year but it is critical that governments do not impose export trade barriers thereby disrupting supply of the vaccine.

Increasing the airflow through isolation hotels is important in helping prevent further spread of Covid-19, microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles says, though it's still not clear how the latest transmission happened.

A large fire burning in the Ka Whata Tu O Rakihouia Conservation Park in the Clarence Valley near Kaikōura is now contained.

Police have shut down a community checkpoint in Waiomio in Northland citing traffic safety concerns.

People in Northland are divided on an iwi proposal to reinstate checkpoints in Northland in the light of a new community case of Covid-19.