A South Auckland youth hub is seeing an increase in its roll call, as students seize an opportunity to catch up on their studies.

The pause on quarantine-free travel from New South Wales to New Zealand will continue for a further 12 days.

James Desmond Gardner-Hopkins has been found guilty on six charges after sexual misconduct at Wellington Christmas parties.

The number of testing sites in Wellington has doubled after a Covid-19 scare prompted by an Australian tourist who visited the capital on the weekend.

Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has defended a big drop in the number of prisoners getting treatment for alcohol and drug problems.

Capacity for MIQ has dropped by 900 spots as Christmas holidays near.

A review of the New Plymouth Airport terminal project has found it went more than $4 million over budget and cost more than three times the amount first mooted for an upgrade at the council-owned facility.

A new Covid-19 testing centre at Te Papa Tongarewa's carpark will be up and running in Wellington from tomorrow.

University of Canterbury and an American museum have discovered separate linens are from the same ancient shroud.

A coroner has banned media from reporting all evidence in the inquiry into the death of the Rotorua man, after RNZ revealed discrepancies in the official story of the police shooting.

Police have acknowledged failings in investigations into complaints made over abuse in the adolescent unit at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s.

Local MPs in Hawke's Bay are celebrating Waka Kotahi's plan to invest in the Napier-Taupō highway, but the Hastings' Mayor says more guarantees are needed.

Several people that Kahungunu ki Pōneke Community Services had met with had not heard of the alert level changes in Wellington.

Water restrictions will be lifted once authorities are certain lead level spikes have been resolved.

There are no cases of Covid-19 in the community to report today, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says.

A health expert says the government has become complacent and didn't act fast enough to suspend travel with Covid-19-hit New South Wales.

Police are seeking information on a man seen after a woman was allegedly assaulted.

Rangers in Auckland's Shakespear Regional Park say stoats are getting smart to age-old trapping techniques, so they have had to come up with new methods.