Stuff understands the Omicron border case who was active in the community is an international DJ, brought into NZ to play the festival circuit.

DJs Friction and Dimension are unable to take the stage at the Wānaka music festival, organisers say.

New Zealand’s first Omicron case to be active in the community visited several popular nightclubs and restaurants in central Auckland.

Six locations of interest in Auckland CBD have been announced after New Zealand’s first Omicron community exposure has been confirmed.

There are two new Covid-19 cases in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne, including a child aged between 5 and 12-years-old.

An Auckland lotto player has taken home $17.2 million tonight, just days after Christmas.

Emergency services had to deal with the second serious crash near Waitakaruru in as many days.

Black Caps opener says he is ready to return to test cricket against Bangladesh on New Year's Day after punching his bat in anger seven weeks ago.

In a move he now regrets, Peter Witika entered his burning home on Christmas morning to try to find the keys to his car.

By Friday, every region apart from Northland will move to orange in the traffic light system. Here's what you need to know.

A rāhui has been placed on the Manawatū River as searchers continue looking for a woman and child.

REVIEW: Overdramatic, overwrought and overly-reliant on special effects, today, the only impression this will make is to reduce you to fits of giggles.

After a "dogfight" of a match, Rubin Statham has won his sixth Distinction Hotels Te Anau Tennis Invitational.

From the long-delayed Top Gun sequel to a new Batman, multiple Marvel movies and a Wahlberg-Holland dream-team, next year's line-up looks exciting.

A Southland skip hire company is making a dent in the post-Christmas waste problem, hosting a free pop-up recycling day on Wednesday.

Otago Volts' miserable season continues as country's fastest bowler carves through them in Queenstown.

Positive tests in the Brisbane Roar squad mean another draw reshuffle, but the Nix men's New Year's Day match in Adelaide remains on.

It's not till you're inside that the modern cottage reveals its biggest surprise - and it's not just the stunning harbour views.

The coming year of 2022 will mark 90 years for Invercargill family-owned hardware store E Hayes and Sons.

WorkSafe, which issued three infringement notices to the Christchurch restaurant, said it took a "sustained period of observed non-compliance for us to escalate, which is what happened".