Covid-19 has been spreading through Everest Base Camp, but record numbers of climbing permits are still being issued to climbers. Kiwi mountaineer Guy Cotter talked to Saturday Morning about the unfolding situation.

Twenty-nine schools which were offered the government's funded lunch in schools programme turned down the free food.

Meeting All Blacks, posing for superhero portraits and a first-ever flight ensured a day to remember for some Koru Care kids.

Police are investigating after a new-born baby girl in Hamilton was left with critical injuries earlier this week.

Another man charged in relation to the historic sexual abuse at Auckland's Dilworth School has died.

A beer company owner is apologising for racist comments online, amid mounting calls to boycott the beer.

Vandals who attacked a flood monitoring station this week put people and livelihoods at risk, the Taranaki Regional Council says.

Builders are having to wait nearly half a year to get supplies and say it's getting worse. This is putting a strain on finishing projects, at a time when New Zealand desperately needs more homes.

The race is on for New Zealand to lure high-skilled workers to the country as the rest of the world begins to get back on track during the Covid-19 pandemic, business leaders have been told.

Actor and comedian David McPhail, famous for his impersonations of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, has died.

A rider has died following a crash involving their motorbike and a car in Ōpotiki this evening.

A 'Robin Hood'-style policy, redistributing the big salaries of public service chief executives to lower paid workers, would be more effective than a pay freeze, says a top business academic.

The High Court in Wellington has cleared the way for Wellington City Council to pursue an engineering firm for money if it is successfully sued by the Bank of New Zealand over a failed building.

Nurses have voted to strike for an eight-hour period in a month's time over a breakdown in pay offer negotiations.

An 82-year-old Matamata man has been given home detention over the attempted murder of his wife in a suicide pact.

The death of a nine-year-old girl, who drowned while out whitebaiting with her step-grandfather, may have been avoided if she had been wearing a lifejacket, the coroner says.

Countdown has thanked the public for support following the stabbings in Dunedin which left two staff critically injured.

Christchurch's plan to have 20,000 people living in the city centre within the next few years looks increasingly set to fail.