The trend of falling daily cases Covid-19 should be treated with caution, the Ministry of Health says. RAT result reporting has dropped three days in a row, just like case numbers.

The remote Chatham Islands have announced their first two cases of Covid-19 today.

Hundreds of Hector's and Māui dolphins have been sighted around Aotearoa this summer, with people keeping an eye out for the distinctive markings and rounded dorsal fins of the endangered cetaceans.

The Interislander passenger ferry will sail tonight after earlier trips were cancelled due to 55 staff contracting covid-19 or isolating.

There are 15,161 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, with 610 people now in hospital, the Ministry of Health reports.

Progress is steady for the Christ Church Cathedral restoration, but locals cannot expect to see a finished building any time soon.

Police have opened a homicide investigation after a man died at a house in Huntington last night.

A person has been seriously injured during a burglary in Napier.

Police were called to the Adelphi Motel in Taupō this morning after a report of a man injured.

People shouldn't read too much into today's decline in Covid-19 case numbers, epidemiologist Professor Rod Jackson says.

The head of Tourism New Zealand says 2022 looks like the year of reopening, but he acknowledges it will be a bumpy road ahead.

Between 80 to 100 millimetres of rain is expected to fall between this afternoon and tomorrow morning.

Three people have been killed in crashes this weekend, in Auckland, north of Auckland, and Canterbury.

National MP Maureen Pugh has claimed members of the party were talking with protesters on an almost daily basis.

Auckland's Papakura Marae says it is struggling to cope with the sheer number of whānau needing its services.

Opinion - As the MIQ system winds down the outcome of the court battle over border restrictions is now moot - but the principles are still important, two lawyers say.

The north and east of New Zealand is expected to become drier, and the west and south wetter, with considerable seasonal variation.

When a firefighter abused his young son, many in their small town refused to believe it. Fire and Emergency kept him on, and locals turned on the boy's mum, saying she'd made up the allegations.