In addition, the Prime Minister says the government is also considering mandating mask use in certain high-risk locations when at Covid alert level 2 or higher.

Twenty students at a Christchurch girls school say they have been raped, while others are sexually harassed every day - 2677 instances this year alone.

The Christchurch man, who's the boss of a company with offshore links, appeared in court on Monday facing 50 sex charges.

The Security Intelligence Service has a direct link into a CCTV network the covers a major city centre, a new watchdog report has revealed.

Liston Meintjes beat his personal best time at this weekend's parkrun. He felt light-headed after crossing the finish line – and woke up in hospital.

Coroners Court told a man shot dead by police in 2016 that a police officer couldn't see a way to end the situation without someone getting hurt.

A lone teen protester blocked petrol-powered vehicles from accessing a popular beachside car park in Dunedin, but called police when a driver got angry.

The people are two of 600-700 “potential contacts” and there is no evidence that they had been in direct contact with the infected person, says Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins.

Residents in some Wellington coastal areas are being advised to be ready to evacuate and move vehicles away from the water as worst tidal storm in eight years approaches.

Up to 50 per cent of children from some South Canterbury kindergartens have been away because of illness.

Death of native parrot just the latest in a string of slug gun incidents in Auckland, including the killing of a tūī and eight gannets.

The jurors failed to reach verdicts on five charges relating to allegations of historical sexual abuse.

A pharmacist and pharmacy are in hot water after mistakenly dispensing anti-depressants to a teenager instead of migraine medication.

A proposal to allow people to easily change their sex on their birth certificates has been given the thumbs up from officials.

Woman in her 90s 'spent last eight weeks of her life in pain, her daughter says.

Sir Tim Shadbolt is calling for "fresh eyes" to take a look at the Invercargill City Council's governance progress instead of going back to Richard Thomson who produced a damning report of the council in late 2020.

A week after an Australian with Covid-19 visited Wellington for a holiday, there has been no reported community cases in New Zealand.

Leaders across Wellington arts, culture and hospitality sectors are all in agreement the council has its planned parking changes wrong.

Jacinda Ardern has defended her Government’s contentious hate speech reforms as opposition mounts against the claimed criminalising of “insulting” speech.

Heavy rain has stirred up sediment creating problems for several municipal water supplies in the Lower North Island.