The Covid-19 vaccine rollout in resthomes has been likened to a postcode lottery with Marlborough and Nelson residents being fully vaccinated while others are just receiving the first dose.

With businesses unable to secure managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) spots, the government's business adviser is pushing the need for a long-term solution.

Two under nines football matches at Ocean Grove Park in Dunedin had to be suspended for a short time on Saturday after a pitch invasion by a sea lion.

Prison inspectors had to intervene when two inmates seriously assaulted another inmate at Arohata Prison and staff did nothing to protect the woman.

An academic says the suggestion, that changing a major research fund to favour Māori and Pasifika academics will dilute it, is disgusting.

A person has died in a truck crash that closed State Highway 1 near Tirau for much of the afternoon.

A dermatologist is found to have breached a patient's rights for operating on a chickenpox scar instead of skin cancer.

Schools are offline and more than 100 North Island kindergartens have reverted to pen and paper due to a major international ransomware hit.

The South Island is in for another battering from the weather, as MetService issues a severe weather warning for central and southern New Zealand.

Police have found multiple firearms after a raid on a Black Power-linked house near Wairoa in northern Hawke's Bay.

All 10,000 tonnes of aluminium dross by-product stored in Mataura's old paper mill has been removed.

There are seven new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation and quarantine facilities today.

IT specialists are warning the full extent of the harm done in the latest big ransomware attack is yet to emerge.

A group of Wellington flatmates are trapped in their lease because their landlord is biding time before getting the property up to the Healthy Home Standards.

Community groups are apoplectic the country's environment watchdog has once again delayed a deadline that would effectively ban a highly toxic gas used to treat logs for export.

The Department of Internal Affairs let pokie machine operators break government regulations for 17 years because it had created rules for them that contradicted the law.

The country's district health boards are refusing to release reviews done of their cyber security systems, seven weeks after the Waikato DHB was struck by ransomware attackers.

A tiny wrestling club in South Taranaki is nurturing future champions on an unusual piece of Olympic memorabilia that it uses on a weekly basis.