Videos on social media show protesters in Auckland Domain putting up a number of tents tonight.

Hospitals across the country are receiving anti-Covid-19 mandate protesters returning from Parliament, as some protesters have reportedly been spitting on police in Wellington today.

A man who attempted to swim across the Cook Strait has reportedly died just after completing the feat of endurance.

There have been 13,606 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today, with 263 people in hospital.

The Police Association says officers who lost their jobs should be allowed to return to work after a High Court Ruling quashed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

Ukrainians and their supporters at a Wellington protest say it's agonising not being able to help those at home, but are unimpressed at a request to merge with the anti-Covid mandate protest.

Four years ago, Christchurch City Council declared it was going to get tough on the owners of 30 central city buildings left derelict since the 2011 earthquake.

All southbound traffic lanes on State Highway One over the Auckland Harbour Bridge have now reopened after they were closed while anti-mandate protesters marched across the bridge.

An employee who complained she was criticised for taking one sick day due to menstruation-related illness has reached a settlement with her employer.

Reducing the time between Covid-19 vaccine doses for 5 to 11-year-olds has been rejected by the government's expert advisers.

A man has died in a workplace incident in Carterton this morning.

Police are examining the scene in Auckland where a "serious altercation" left three people with serious injuries.

A Covid-19 modeller says testing and data-processing backlogs are probably behind the record jump in cases.

A 30-year-old man has been charged following a stabbing at Hotel Waterloo on Bunny Street in Wellington last night.

A group representing overseas New Zealanders says it's "absolutely bonkers" that returning Kiwis have to isolate - some in MIQ - when there are 12,000 daily cases in the community.

Education Minister Chris Hipkins has warned that nearly every school and early childhood centre will have contact with Covid-19 in the next few weeks.

How do we prepare ourselves for the inevitable? New Zealanders who've lived through an Omicron wave elsewhere in the world have some advice.

Two flood-prone Northland towns will have five million dollars worth of work done to reduce the risk of further inundation.