Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today gave a formal and unreserved apology on behalf of the government for the Dawn Raids which she said left Pacific communities feeling "targeted and terrorised".

An advocate of the reduced working week says it's time for New Zealanders to re-examine how they're doing business, and that cutting back hours can improve both productivity and mental health.

Just over 1000 guns have been handed back in the government's latest firearms amnesty and buyback.

RNZ photographers were there at today's Dawn Raids Apology capturing the ceremony.

The government has been told Southland could start producing green hydrogen as early as 2023, documents show.

The prime minister has delivered the government's apology for the Dawn Raids. Watch the ceremony again here and review the event as it happened on RNZ's blog.

There have been four new cases reported in managed isolation in the past two days, with no new cases in the community.

Auckland Transport issued a warning to a North Shore gardener over her berm plantings.

Driver licence test wait times have dropped significantly in Tairāwhiti, giving whānau in the isolated, rural areas around the East Cape a "massive bonus".

Moves by supermarkets and other big retailers to set up a charter to improve the safety of transportation in their supply chains are on hold.

Half of the government's contentious 'rapid build' prison cells are completed and ready to be used.

Two weeks on, repairs begin and the community helps with clean-up from flooding.

Film director Taika Waititi will write the script for a live-action movie based on the comic strip Flash Gordon, the producers say.

Christchurch City Council's call to reduce new arena from 30,000 to 25,000 seats is being opposed.

The Royal Commission into historic abuse in care says artificial intelligence used to analyse documents will not review survivors' written submissions.

The Education Ministry is not counting how many school buildings are meeting a key earthquake goal.

Declassified government documents show officials were struggling to debunk TV1 footage of the Kaikōura lights UFO sightings in December 1978.

New Zealand authorities says travellers from Queensland should carefully check if they've been at locations of interest after a snap lockdown was announced in the Australian state.