MIQ guests will no longer be confined to their rooms following their day 11/12 test, after the temporary rule was introduced in January.

A man has died after a tree fell on a digger in a workplace incident on a farm near Harihari on the West Coast.

South Canterbury businesses are crying out for workers to fill vacancies.

Hamilton City councillors who are parents might soon be able to claim a $6K per annum childcare allowance. But there's no such deal for the staff.

Daniel Periam, 20, and Maddie Cannan, 21, have joined a growing list of city dwellers looking to smaller towns to leverage themselves into a first home.

Unions say the closure will be "devastating" for the community, which is still reeling from the Whakaari/White Island eruption and Covid-19.

Although the damage occurred in 2015, the section of the Forgotten World Highway hasn't been forgotten.

Sushma Luxton’s own lawyer described his client and her husband caring for vulnerable children as a “disaster waiting to happen”.

Workers' rights advocates and the Philippines ambassador say deporting a family that was desperate for food during lockdown is "too harsh".

Officials have confirmed the airline didn't need permits for the heavily criticised export of engines it was repairing for the Saudi Arabian military.

About 60 jobs will be lost with the closure of the short-lived superstore.

Wildlife farms in southern China are possibly the likely source of the Covid-19 pandemic, a member of WHO's expert team says ahead of a report being released.

It is easier for overseas film-stars and oil worker to get through New Zealand’s closed borders than it is for health care workers or teachers, new figures from Immigration New Zealand suggest.

A single mother faces the rest of her life eating through a straw because Canterbury health authorities will not fund a facial reconstruction.

Concerns have being raised about the covid vaccination rollout clashing with the flu jab meaning older people might not get their flu jabs until half-way through winter.

New Zealand's minister for Pacific peoples says Pasifika health providers will play a pivotal role in vaccinating the second priority group, which includes older Pasifika people.

Last year deaths from ovarian cancer topped the road toll, yet people with the disease say it is an ignored crisis.

The New Zealand Government has lashed out at Australia's deportation policy — but won't take it up with the United Nations.

Instead of giving food parcels, Wellington City Mission welcomed its first customers to pick their own items at its social supermarket.

The owner of five vacant shops in a Christchurch street lined with heritage buildings is refusing to sell or tenant them after 10 years of being shuttered.