With the government set to announce an extension of its free lunches programme to 2023, Justin Latif spoke to parents, teachers and the businesses delivering the service about how the scheme is working so far.

The travel pause with New South Wales will lift tomorrow, subject to no further significant developments in NSW, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says.

The deaths of two people after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine have been reported to the Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring.

Air New Zealand has escalated signoffs needed for projects in the wake of revelations its subsidiary worked for Saudi Arabia's military.

The government is hypocritical for releasing details of its fair pay policy after freezing public sector wages, says Auckland Action Against Poverty.

Explainer - Who gets the Covid-19 vaccine, and when? RNZ is here to clear it all up.

The HIV epidemic is far from over, despite a decline in the number of diagnoses, says University of Auckland researcher Peter Saxon.

A Vodafone outage affected the digital services at some Covid-19 vaccination centres today, resulting in longer wait times, the Ministry of Health says.

There have been three new cases and three historical cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation today, while the person moved into isolation yesterday after they were identified as a contact of a Sydney case has tested negative.

There's no denying it: this Sunday, your mum deserves a jolly good spoiling.

The US will join the Christchurch Call to Action to try and eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online, the White House has announced.

Health authorities are tracking down University of Auckland staff and students who may have had contact with a student with infectious tuberculosis.

Police will review the way officers give formal warnings, after a teacher was wrongly warned over grooming accusations.

Te Papa and the Department of Conservation spent $10,000 to return the body of a 350 kilogram turtle to Canterbury hapū, but say it was the right thing to do.

A person was killed when a car crashed into a tree in Mid Canterbury early this morning.

The Lake Dunstan Trail in Central Otago has officially opened this morning.

The trans-Tasman bubble with New South Wales should be fired back up again, according to infectious disease specialist Professor Peter Collignon, who says he would not have shut it down in the first place.

Petrified young teenage boys digging their own graves and a mock execution has been outlined to the inquiry into abuse in care on Friday.