Queues form at supermarkets around the country, as Kiwis brace for a move back to alert level 4 at midnight over a positive Covid-19 case in Auckland. Meanwhile, locations of interest for Auckland, Coromandel released.

Stay local. Do not congregate. Don't talk to your neighbours: Strict rules for Kiwis as we enter a second nationwide lockdown.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has given people 48 hours to get home, including travel between regions. Here's what you need to know.

A hotel, a cafe, a jewellery store and a gas station are among the locations visited by a man in his 50s who has since tested positive for Covid-19.

Here's what's happening from the pages of The Dominion Post and in the capital today.

A commemoration service, nurses’ strike and food events in Wellington have come to a halt after the entire country has gone into alert level 4.

If you're after a mobile gate, a dance floor or racing related items, the auction of items from a defunct Dunedin raceway may be for you.

NZ's return to Covid-19 alert level 4 lockdown could cause havoc for top sporting teams and domestic competitions.

Nurses and midwives have called off their planned strikes for Thursday after a community case of Covid-19 in Auckland led to a nationwide lockdown.

Supermarkets have sold out of toilet paper and there are queues at fast food outlets as Canterbury prepares for the “inevitable” return to lockdown.

A Taranaki man on trial for methamphetamine charges alongside his partner was overheard fearing he had been “set up” just weeks before their arrest, a court heard.

A South Island highway was closed after a Transpower high voltage power line fell across the road, causing power outages to more than 1000 homes.

Fewer than half of a group of 37 Afghans New Zealand have promised to evacuate have reached Kabul. Most are hiding in the mountainous Bamyan province.

The 20th anniversary event of NZ Fashion Week was set to start next week, with crews arriving on Tuesday night to set up.

A group opposed to commercial water bottlers using old industrial consents in Canterbury has taken its fight to the Court of Appeal.

From Kate Winslet's triumphant return to the small screen to Aotearoa-shot fantasies, there's been some compelling viewing over the past seven months.

But the wage subsidy will be available across the country, the finance minister says.

REVIEW: Some may struggle with its story-within-a-story-within-a- story and non-linear structure, but the payoff is well worth the head-scratching.

The man from Devonport on Auckland's North Shore travelled to the Coromandel in the days before testing positive.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the vaccine roll-out has been suspended for 48 hours amid the latest nationwide lockdown, in order to ensure the safety of front line health workers.