Auckland moves to alert level 2 on Sunday after a week in level 3. Officials saw fewer cases “than expected”, given the more infectious variant, but 7-day restriction “wise”.

The SIS says it can't monitor the “millions of pages of posts made online every day”, after a member of the public alerted police to a car bomb attack threat.

Residents evacuated in Northland, Bay of Plenty and Great Barrier Island can return home but people around the country advised to take extra care around the coast.

“I always said I hope that my pager never goes off and it’s my address on it, but it happened."

Thirteen organisations and people face charges over the lead-up to the eruption, which killed 22 people.

The 27-year-old is charged with threatening to kill, after an alleged mosque car bomb threat.

Thousands ran to the town's main hill as the sea threatened, but officials say the people of Whakatāne did things right.

Move to alert level 2 for Auckland celebrated by exhausted business owners.

Accident-prone Hutton's shearwater chicks will be taking to the skies for the first time this month, and they need the public’s help.

PM Jacinda Ardern says it's hard not to feel like New Zealand is having a run of bad luck, with residents waking up today to a tsunami alert amidst the Covid-19 restrictions.

The 12-year-old boy left his home in Gisborne at 5pm on Friday and has not been seen since.

Thieves stole wallets from cars then racked up thousands of dollars' worth of purchases on paywave.

The crash happened on Main Rd, near Shag Rock in Sumner, on Friday evening.

As health staff and patients were getting ready to move into Christchurch's new hospital, two engineers warned authorities the building was not safe.

Rapid antigen tests have been touted as quick alternatives that don’t require a laboratory analysis. Some can turn up a result in as little as 12 minutes.

Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry says getting resource consent for the Eastern Bays Shared Path is a step forward when it came to improving the city’s infrastructure.

It was Graeme and Pauline Summerby's dog, Monty, that felt it first. They, along with tens of thousands of others, were rattled from their sleep at 2.30am in what would be the first scare of many during the day.

Niwa has animated Friday morning's seismic activity.

ANALYSIS: Three major earthquakes, including one magnitude 8.1 shake, ruptured along the Tonga Kermadec subduction zone, the longest such system on Earth.

The organisation running NZ’s 16 polytechs has been branded an “old boys’ club” as one of its council members is also a director of two of the polytechs.