Three people who presented to Middlemore Hospital in recent days have tested positive for Covid-19, Ministry of Health says.

Case numbers have risen with some unlinked cases causing concern; military staff challenge a vaccine directive and anxiety over policing hospital visitors.

What happens if your bubble includes dozens of other people? Michelle Cooke checked in with a transitional housing facility and an intentional community to find out how they are managing lockdown.

An Instagram account set up by three Blenheim teenagers in 2018 has become a huge hit.

Police are investigating after a woman's body was found at a property in Manurewa around 4.30pm today.

Nurses at Auckland City Hospital are having to police visitors who are breaking bubble rules and not wearing masks around the wards when they're already stretched thin.

There have been 23 new cases of Covid-19 in the community reported in New Zealand today, more than double the amount reported yesterday.

A motorcyclist has died after crashing on SH2 north of Wellington this afternoon.

Twelve military personnel are launching a legal challenge to the directive that would see them discharged for declining a Covid-19 vaccination.

A man who escaped from Corrections custody at the end of June has been found.

An MIQ worker at the Holiday Inn facility in Auckland has tested positive for Covid-19 during routine testing.

Sixty-one people have been charged with failing to comply with Covid-19 orders since the alert level 4 lockdown came into effect in Auckland.

A service to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was the only in-person service in New Zealand after the ceremony in Auckland had to be cancelled due to lockdown.

Two people have died in vehicle accidents overnight.

Covid-19 cases in the community continue to drop and symptomatic Aucklanders are being urged to get tested this weekend.

Vaccination centres have been scaled up again in Auckland today, amid second-dose bookings from the country's first mass vaccination event.

Gales that ripped through the South Island overnight and this morning left a trail of damage, sparking fires, knocking down trees, and pushing over shelter belts.

A board member who resigned in protest has been elected as the new leader of the Nurses' Organisation.