The Auckland Airport worker who has tested positive for Covid-19 cleans planes from 'red-zone countries', and had been fully vaccinated, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.

Opinion - Speculation about National's leadership has died down, writes Bryce Edwards: Judith Collins lives on as leader, but the party desperately needs to rebuild.

Sydney tourism operators are over the moon to be welcoming back New Zealanders taking advantage of the quarantine-free travel arrangement.

Emergency services based on top of the Alpine Fault in Franz Josef must be urgently moved, the mayor says, after experts forecast a higher likelihood for a devastating quake in the next 50 years.

A former inmate is taking prison operator Serco to court for allegedly treating him in a degrading and inhumane way - something Serco categorically denies.

Accusations of propaganda, destroying "taonga" and jeopardising people's mental and spiritual health - all par for the course at a meeting over the future of Rotorua's Springfield Golf Course.

With the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble, normal procedures will resume for those people deported from Australia.

A man who was once a suspect in the killing of Teresa Cormack has had convictions he received because of that association quashed.

A Waikato campaigner for changes in the care of mental health patients, support for whānau and accountability from DHBs says she is hopeful after meeting with the Health Minister.

Driver of heavy trucks are using damaged bridges on back roads near Ōhakune despite warnings from the council.

The new base opened after more than two years of planning, is fitted out with new features to provide better access for the public, and can house nearly 100 staff.

The chances of the South Island's Alpine Fault generating a damaging earthquake in the next 50 years are much higher than previously thought, new research shows.

A man is missing after an early morning fishing expedition at Piha and a search is underway while there are large swell conditions.

The Exclusive Brethren church has been using the controversial private investigators Thompson and Clark to spy on former members of the church.

New Plymouth Mayor Neil Holdom has joined the chorus of local-body politicians bemoaning Waka Kotahi's commitment to delivering road safety projects.

A review into Wellington's billion dollar highway Transmission Gully has found the project was flawed from the start.

A year on from the government's $25 increase to benefits, some solo parents and people with disabilities or chronic illnesses say it has made very little difference to their budgets.

A lab worker somewhere in New Zealand will process the country's two-millionth Covid-19 test in the coming week.