A Wellington iwi says abuse and threats at the protest at Parliament need to stop.

New research shows there are significantly more kererū and pīwakawaka in our backyards than there were 10 years ago.

Immunisation Advisory Centre medical advisor Peter McIntyre says there has been "mandate creep" in schools where children are not mandated to be vaccinated against Covid-19, but are being banned from sports and other extracurricular activities i...

The Ministry of Health is reporting 1929 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today.

A warrant of arrest remains for Thomas Phillips, the King Country man who went missing with his three children in Marokopa last year.

Police are still refusing to take enforcement action against protesters on Parliament grounds because of fears it will lead to violence, says the Police Commissioner. Watch the latest police briefing here.

Police have confirmed one person has died following a single-vehicle crash in Timaru this afternoon.

Almost 30 Wellington community leaders - mayors, MPs, principals and business leaders - have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at Parliament.

Residents are being asked to keep it down as Christchurch City Council had a record number of noise complaints lodged at the end of last year.

Victoria University of Wellington students are urging authorities to find alternative locations for anti-mandate protesters to camp, before classes resume at the end of the month.

The advertising watchdog has upheld 101 complaints about misinformation about Covid-19 in glossy flyers distributed to homes around New Zealand by the anti-mandate group, Voices for Freedom.

Dunedin police have slammed those who organised and attended a large party in the city's student quarter last night, with Covid-19 cases now confirmed in the community.

A Dunedin eye surgeon has been fined $4000 for seeing patients while unvaccinated for Covid-19 and is no longer able to practice in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health says.

More than 1kg of methamphetamine has been seized and nine people have been arrested, including gang members, in Wairoa, Hawke's Bay.

Consultants are among an exodus of medical staff from New Zealand to countries whose immigration policies are more attractive.

A Waikato University law professor says he is not surprised by the results of a snap poll suggesting 30 percent of New Zealanders support the protest on Parliament's lawn.

A petition calling for justice for an Otago Muslim teenager who was attacked at her school has more than 42,000 signatures just a day after it launched.

Essential water use restrictions are now in place for Westport and Carters Beach after flooding damaged a large section of the region's water pipeline.