Locked in cells, physically, sexually and emotionally abused: a man tells the Royal Commission of Inquiry about his life in state care from ages nine to 15.

Insulting and inappropriate, that's the response to the New Zealand High Commission twitter plea for oxygen cylinders to treat a seriously sick staff member with Covid-19.

Voices - New Zealand's border closed just one day before toddlers, Nimrat and Tarman Kaur, were due to join their parents in Christchurch.

Some of Tāmaki Makaurau-Auckland's queer community have staged a protest outside two of the city's best-known gay bars, accusing the management of transphobic behaviour.

Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft is warning Pharmac not to play one group of children with a life-threatening illness off against another.

The government has launched an investigation asking the Productivity Commission to dig deeper into what immigration policy settings would best help New Zealand's economic growth.

A Cook Islands tourism leader says a two-way quarantine-free travel bubble with New Zealand set to begin from 17 May will give them a lifeline.

A Royal albatross chick has had a lucky escape after a plastic toy pony was served up for its dinner.

The Antarctic Heritage Trust is searching for five young New Zealanders to join the first expedition to cross the Mahu Whenua Traverse.

Police in Otago are looking for a group of men who accidentally shot two women while duck shooting from a boat on the Clutha River yesterday.

A counsellor who developed a personal relationship with a prisoner she was treating has been advised to undergo training or stop working.

A 33-year-old man has been arrested after a threat that disrupted Cook Strait ferries for several hours today.

A coroner has found a computer tablet was stuck in a "dangerous" place in the windscreen of a truck that hit and killed a woman in Auckland.

Four new cases of Covid-19 have tested positive in managed isolation and quarantine in the past day, the Health Ministry says.

Police were notified of the crash involving a truck and a car on Happy Valley Road about 1.40pm.

Police in Waikato are asking for the public's help to find a missing fisherman in Raglan.

Te Whare Tūhono, Auckland's latest mass vaccination clinic for Covid-19, has opened in Henderson on Monday morning.

Nine unvaccinated border workers fired by Customs may take their case to the Employment Court on the grounds their right to refuse medical treatment has been breached.