Violent criminal behaviour directed at police as ramping up like never before, according to the police commissioner.

The pause extension has been called a "precautionary but necessary" measure and will be reviewed again this Wednesday.

Water levels have fallen in Marlborough, revealing the extent of the damage caused by heavy rain over the weekend.

Volunteers collected an immense amount of dog faeces from the 5km stretch of Dunedin's popular West Harbour walkway.

New hate speech law proposals from the government are confusing - even tripping up the prime minister and justice minister. RNZ is here to clear it all up.

The Department of Conservation is investigating a pod of orca sighted in the Marlborough Sounds in an effort to reunite a stranded calf with its family.

Two crew members onboard the Mattina container ship currently in quarantine in Bluff have tested positive for Covid-19.

A New Zealand-developed instant drug screening service is proving popular with police who have been testing its use to identify drugs in the field.

Floodwaters still have not completely receded from some parts of Westport and Marlborough and hundreds of people are displaced after water rushed through their homes.

Polio survivors in Canterbury and the West Coast are being offered free physiotherapy classes to help them cope with long-term effects of the virus.

More space in managed isolation and quarantine facilities has been set aside for managed return flights from New South Wales.

New Zealand's biggest shipment of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine so far - some 370,000 doses, more than the past two shipments combined - has arrived early.

Wellingtonians are being warned to get used to future large rainfall events, similar to the one over the weekend.

South African expats are gathering in Wellington and Auckland today to ask the government to consider exceptions for families separated by the closed borders.

There are three new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation and none in the community today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.

Drug-buying agency Pharmac says New Zealand's supply of steriod medication Prednisolone almost doubled in June.

The Defence Force has for the first time taken lead of an international maritime task force that carries out security operations in the Arabian Gulf.

Eleven people have been arrested and millions of dollars worth of drugs have been seized following a police operation into a local drug dealing syndicate.