More than 1000 Pacific people had their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine today at a church in Porirua - with some wanting to stay afterwards to enjoy the atmosphere.

A selection of ready-to-eat salads sold in supermarkets throughout the country are being recalled as they might contain listeria.

While government has announced plans to ban several plastics by 2025, the environmental group says they should go further.

New South Wales has recorded 50 new community cases of Covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm yesterday.

Families of victims of 2010 mine disaster seeking injunction to prevent site from being permanently sealed.

Former New Zealand rich-lister faces more court woes over alleged stock tips.

A public health professor is backing the government's last-minute call to scrap mercy flights out of New South Wales, as the state's premier warns that its lockdown may need to be extended.

Two people have been been arrested after a police officer was shot during a routine traffic stop in Hamilton last night.

Early Childhood Council is calling for government support as RSV illness hits enrolment numbers.

Transport accident investigators are appealing for witnesses to come forward as they begin an inquiry into yesterday's hot-air balloon crash near Arrowtown.

Police helicopter deployed to track down alleged car thief.

A rule introduced last month in managed isolation and quarantine prohibits any exercise that creates heavy breathing or perspiration while returnees are out of their rooms.

A Wellington College pupil has been forced to find a new way to get to school after being bullied by a bus driver, who refused to stop and pick him up.

A forest of floating kelp and shark egg casings is one of the many installations illuminating the night as part of Nelson's inaugural Te Ramaroa light festival.

Whanganui school students will be the first in the country to be vaccinated at school from the beginning of the next school term.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his neglected young son while the family was staying in emergency housing last year.

The business owner who championed the four-day working week says New Zealand lags behind the rest of the world when it comes to leaving Monday-to-Friday behind.

The government is being called on to hold an independent review of the country's opera sector, following claims of mismanagement by the New Zealand Opera company.