Doctors at Auckland Hospital have been told they cannot fly to Australia for business or continuing education when the bubble opens later this month.

Travel into New Zealand from India - including for New Zealand citizens and residents - is being temporarily suspended because of high numbers of Covid-19 cases.

Australians and New Zealanders are like cousins and plenty of the former intend heading over the Tasman to catch up with family and sample the country's many attractions, a travel expert says.

A DHB boss who agrees he had preferential treatment for a Covid-19 vaccination despite not being high on the priority list must quit, says the National Māori Authority chair.

Rest homes around the country are still waiting for a start date for Covid-19 vaccinations, despite being in a priority group that should be getting the jab about now.

A security guard at the Grand Millennium MIQ facility in Auckland has tested positive for Covid-19 four days after having a sore throat, Dr Ashley Bloomfield says.

Long-term residents of a holiday park in Whakatāne say they are being kicked out of their homes and have nowhere else to go because the council is reviewing occupancy rules.

Whakatāne District Council general manager community experience Georgina Fletcher said council staff felt privileged to be able to facilitate the first burial at the Hillcrest Cemetery Natural Burial Grove.

Senior Māori and union leaders say the Ports of Auckland boss needs to quit, and should leave the role without a payout.

An investigation into 10 unlawful Chinese workers should also probe whether agents and corrupt officials helped them secure visas, an immigration lawyer says.

Bus drivers in Wellington are one stop closer to getting paid the living wage, but there are still some bumps in the road.

There appears to be no end in sight over the ongoing dispute between the Pike River families about the future direction of the mine's recovery.

A man pulled from the water at Ōhope Beach in Bay of Plenty this afternoon has died.

Campaigners, unionists and a councillor have ramped up calls for Ports of Auckland boss Tony Gibson to resign, having delivered a letter saying so this morning.

Passengers arriving in Auckland on three flights today have not picked up their luggage at the airport, under a trial which sees bags taken directly to managed isolation hotels.

The Ministry of Health wants to change the way people's medical records are shared nationwide, with IT health experts growing frustrated in the meantime.

Greenhouse gas emissions were down 4.8 percent for the year to December, largely due to a fall in transport emissions because of Covid-19.

The fossilised remains of a turtle that lived between 25 and 35 million years ago have been discovered inside a pillar from a historic Christchurch church.