OPINION: New Zealand has avoided a Covid-19 outbreak so far, but now is clearly the time to introduce mandatory scanning and mask rules.

'Impossible’-to-pay rent increases bandied about council renew calls for senior housing tenants to sit on committee governing them.

Corrie van Wyk is desperately seeking an MIQ spot for his next leave in August, and can't stay at his work in a Sierra Leone diamond mine.

One of the two kayakers who headed out into a tempestuous Wellington Harbour, sparking a sea and air search, says it is the type of thing he lives for.

Children's Minister Kelvin Davis orders investigation after whistleblower video showing children being tackled to ground at state care facility.

As the capital prepares for normality at alert level 1, city leaders say Wellingtonians need to re-embrace scanning after complacency had crept in.

Cordons have been lifted and a person is in custody in the city's east after armed police responded to an incident believed to involve a gun.

The capital will move back to alert level 1 at 11.59pm, but the pause on quarantine-free trans-Tasman travel to New South Wales has been pushed out for another 12 days

The police officer that fired the fatal shots that killed a man in a 2016 domestic violence call describes the moment he pulled the trigger

Genome sequencing shows in-facility transmission of Covid-19 unlikely at Novotel Auckland Airport, so returnees asked to stay longer are now eligible for release.

The Government has spent a fraction of the $438.3 million it set aside in Budget 2018 and 2019 for building and refurbishing mental health facilities.

A state of local emergency has been declared, residents follow evacuation orders on Wellington's south coast, as workers partially close Ōwhiro Bay road.

Parkhill Road in Haumoana is currently closed after a crash that left one with serious injuries

Police and emergency services including three rescue helicopters are responding to a serious two-car crash on State Highway 5, near Waiotapu, south of Rotorua.

Just under 30,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine were ready for distribution in NZ on Tuesday, and "we're cutting it very fine" ahead of a new shipment next week, minister warns.

From Thursday, total rates in New Plymouth will go up an average of 12 per cent after district councillors approved their $3 billion work plan for the next 10 years.

Wellington Mayor Andy Foster has declared a local state of emergency as the region's south coast prepares to bear the brunt of this evening’s storm.

A polar blast that brought one of the coldest days of the year to the South Island has moved north, leaving behind clear skies and severe frosts in some places.

Due to adverse weather, more Gulf Harbour ferry services will be replaced by bus on Tuesday evening.

Snow is blanketing Rangitīkei and Ruapehu for the first time this winter, while flooding overwhelms Horowhenua water systems.