An Ōpōtiki teacher said their principal had her home burgled while they were out helping all their students evacuate during the tsunami alerts.

Major excavations are starting in Auckland's Mount Eden as work begins on connecting the Western railway line to the under-construction City Rail Link.

Politician Jami-Lee Ross is behind a company reportedly planning to sell a supplement that protects users from 5G radiation.

The east coast of New Zealand is continuing to feel strong aftershocks today following yesterday's earthquakes.

A father in Ireland says his 11-year-old daughter was delighted to receive a personal letter from Jacinda Ardern.

There have been no new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today, with the country's alert levels set to shift tomorrow morning.

Tāmaki Makaurau's rainbow community says it is hopeful the final major events of the Auckland Pride calendar can go ahead next Friday.

A heritage-listed building in central Wellington has suffered cracks to an original stained glass window after roading contractors busted a pipe.

Aucklanders are being reminded that they cannot party tonight, despite the looming change of Covid-19 alert levels and the lack of community cases.

Air New Zealand has apologised after some of its airpoints members have had their information stolen.

Industry leaders have welcomed the decision to move Auckland to alert level 2 and the rest of the country to level one on Sunday at 6am.

A Civil Defence official says word-of-mouth was vital in getting out evacuation orders in the Bay of Plenty following a tsunami warning.

Three earthquakes off the coast of New Zealand today has meant threat of tsunami for many on the coast, prompting towns to be evacuated with people sheltering on high ground.

A Covid-19 modeller and an epidemiologist say the alert level changes at the end of last week were justified, despite no new community cases for five days.

Auckland will move to alert level 2 and the rest of New Zealand will move to level 1 at 6am on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced.

The Ministry of Education last year ordered schools to enrol 205 children because there was no other way of persuading principals to accept them.

A man has been arrested after barricading himself inside of a property in the Tāmaki Makaurau suburb of Mount Albert.

A scrub fire at a Wellington park that caused smoke to drift across surrounding suburbs this morning has been extinguished.