South of Auckland enjoys an easing of lockdown restrictions, community Covid-19 cases go up, MIQ bookings pause with a new booking system on the way, and border policing runs smoothly.

Auckland's hospitals are asking others around the country to send intensive care nurses to help them cope with the Covid outbreak.

Ruined cars, broken belongings and ripped up gardens have emerged from floodwaters in West Auckland after Monday night's deluge.

Takeaway envy, relief for indebted Aucklanders and unexpected animal visits - here's some of the best fun and uplifting social media content from day 15 of lockdown.

Interislander ferry services have been suspended after a locomotive and a railway wagon fell into Picton Harbour.

An application by Far North landowners to take billions of litres of water from an underground aquifer has been given the go ahead.

Two students have now been caught breaching lockdown rules by flying out of Auckland, receiving fines for breaking the rules.

New Zealand's oldest person, RNZAF war veteran Ron Hermanns, has died just three weeks from his 110th birthday.

Car loads of people queued up at Auckland's first drive-thru vaccination site at a marae today, an initiative many hope will boost low vaccination rates among Māori.

Every day, David Letele and the workers at his Brown Buttabean foodbank are run off their feet. From morning until well into the night, they're busy packing parcels by the hundreds to meet an unprecedented demand.

Traffic snaked out of carparks and on to streets in parts of Wairarapa today as people got their takeaway fix as the region moved to Covid-19 alert level 3.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says case numbers may have risen since yesterday, but the bounce was similar to that seen in the first outbreak last year and average numbers were still lower than the peak.

More than two dozen supermarkets and dairies have been added to the locations of interest, two weeks into the alert level four lockdown for Auckland. See how the day unfolded with with RNZ's blog.

Almost 70 percent of the eligible population have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine or have booked to have one, says Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins.

A man taken to hospital after he was placed in a restraint chair in the Manukau Custody Unit on Monday has died, police say.

Grieving families are now allowed to farewell loved ones at funeral homes under a change to alert level 4.

A disabled woman had more than $10,000 stolen from her by an employee from a charity meant to be assisting her with her finances.

Auckland Libraries has wiped all overdue fines and won't be issuing any in the future, regardless of how late you return a book or where in Tāmaki Makaurau you live.