Legislation banning conversion therapy has passed its third and final reading at Parliament with the support of almost all MPs.

Queenstown has recorded another 22 new Covid-19 cases bringing its total to 56.

Police is putting into action its Major Operations Centre at the headquarters in Wellington in a bid to quell protesters "unreasonably impacting the city".

Another 50,000 vouchers are being handed out for people to visit tourist attractions and council facilities in Auckland.

A truck crash on State Highway 1, north of Auckland, has closed the road near the Dome Valley area since this morning.

The parents of NZ snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott's have praised their daughter's "nerves of steel" after she won a second medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics - this time a silver in the Big Air competition.

A charity shop in Picton has closed due to the spread of Omicron and the increasing presence of anti-vaccination mandate protesters, who are not wearing masks, in the small town.

Auckland's yarnbombers have been knitting up a storm for Pride Month, as a way to celebrate without cancellations.

The head of the St John of God Catholic Order in Oceania has apologised to the survivors of historical abuse at Marylands School in Christchurch.

With lengthy queues again reported at Covid-19 testing centres in Auckland, up to 70 percent of those queuing do not have symptoms, health authorities say.

Fire and Emergency believes arson is behind two scrubfires in the Far North over the past fortnight.

The vessel is believed to have sunk after the hull became filled up with rainwater.

Microbiologist Siouxie Wiles says the country's move to phase two tonight is not as complicated as it sounds.

Powerco still has more than 5000 customers without power due to outages caused by Cyclone Dovi.

There are 744 new community cases of Covid-19 being reported in New Zealand today.

The Disability Support Network says the Ministry of Health's failure to notify the sector of a booster deadline extension could have resulted in staff being unnecessarily suspended or dismissed today.

The 48-hour full strike comes after 12 weeks of partial strike action, which has seen physicists refuse to operate machinery outside of ordinary hours.

Even scientists who study the deep-water sharks have seen precious few of them, and newly hatched ghost shark finds are rarer still.