Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says he is aware of the risk outlined by the Auditor-General's review about completing the vaccine roll out on time, however, he is confident they are on track.

Police are investigating after the incident at the Tauranga Netball Centre on Saturday afternoon when two men got into a fight - and it's believed one used a hammer.

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Canterbury businessman Dave Gaughan, who was called out for racist remarks against Māori, is quitting his brewing company.

The mayors of the Ashburton and Selwyn districts have confirmed they have not reached out to Judith Collins around the ownership of water as part of the Three Waters' reforms.

Clinical services across all Waikato public hospitals have been seriously affected by a cyber security incident with all phones and computers down.

The first flight from Auckland left with almost 300 people on board to the destination, which has been starved of tourists since the Covid-19 pandemic hit.

Migrants have hit back at the government's immigration reset, saying it uses them as a "scapegoat" for problems with housing, infrastructure and worker welfare.

A staff member at the New Zealand High Commission in New Delhi has died of Covid-19.

The fate of two rural Manawatū settlements will soon be known, as the Local Government Commission meets this week to decide whether to change their council boundary line.

Business owners say commercial contracts are being put at risk by delayed goods, the result of an inability to get shipments into Ports of Auckland.

Major doubts about whether everyone will be vaccinated for Covid-19 by the end of the year have been raised by the auditor-general.

In a situation labelled "mayhem", staff have been told the outage to phones and computers across five Waikato hospitals could take days to fix.

The supervisor of three police facing manslaughter charges after a man died in custody says if people are heavily intoxicated they are sometimes taken straight to hospital.

The hunt is on for two remaining stoats causing havoc on Motutapu Island.

A school bus and car have collided head-on near Queenstown as the region is hampered by wintry conditions.

There is one new case of Covid-19 in managed isolation and quarantine facilities, one historical case and none in the community today.

Peter Boshier says he has not seen significant improvement in prisoners' welfare in many areas and wants to know why.