An Auckland parent says it was "beyond frustrating" trying for five months to get her preschooler a free dental appointment.

Members of the New Zealand Medical Association are being urged to stop the 136-year-old institution from going into liquidation.

Cruise ships are likely to return to the Banks Peninsula this summer, but in far fewer numbers than before the Covid-19 pandemic.

The area from Gisborne to Wairarapa is expected to be a good viewing spot for a meteor shower early tomorrow morning.

Police Eagle helicopter crew are being praised for efforts that saw them land in a paddock to arrest seven young people.

There have been 12 further deaths and another 6745 new community cases of Covid-19 reported today.

A small plane has reportedly crashed at the Feilding Aerodrome, leaving the pilot seriously injured.

The Waitomo District mayor believes the community is in the dark about the whereabouts of missing Waikato man Tom Phillips and his three children.

A pre-planned police road operation under way today in Auckland's Mount Wellington area is related to gang activity.

Police are asking anyone with information about a man found dead on a Wairarapa road to come forward.

Covid-19 hospitalisations have fallen for two consecutive days and the amount of new cases has been relatively stable for two weeks, but Professor Michael Baker says infection rates around NZ will still go up and down.

Around 10,000 allied health workers are pinning their hopes on a pay offer from district health boards in time to avert a fortnight of industrial action.

Police have made more arrests over a shooting in Wellington's CBD and shots fired at a house in the suburb of Tawa last month.

Ukrainian families in Nelson are holding a bake sale to raise funds for Ohmatdyt, the country's biggest children's hospital in Kyiv.

As the duck hunting season is officially launched today, many more young people are joining in, an enthusiast says.

Some immigrants are applying for refugee status because they've tested positive for HIV in New Zealand and are worried the government will kick them out.

A Wellington man who claims police threatened to trespass him from an Anzac Day memorial if he displayed an Armenian flag in memory of genocide victims says it is "shameful".

It's been four months since children aged between 5-11 years old became eligible for Covid-19 vaccinations, but latest data shows less than a quarter have received both jabs.