The number of people with Covid-19 who have died in New Zealand has now reached 105, with 14 deaths reported in the past two days.

The total number of deaths of people with Covid-19 in New Zealand has risen to more than 100 with seven more reported today, while community case numbers have risen by 18,699.

Emergency services are responding to a serious crash on State Highway 1 near Tirau.

They were supposed to be a sanctuary for tamariki taken away from a world of abuse, but for those placed in Social Welfare facilities in the 1970s and '80s, they were houses of pain and fear.

Multiple people were discovered injured after shots were fired in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill last night.

A man who was seriously assaulted on the Waikato Expressway yesterday is in a critical but stable condition in hospital, police say.

The Tourism Minister has acknowledged businesses are concerned about staffing ahead of the border reopening, but says support will be there.

New Zealand and Australian delegations will return to Gallipoli on Anzac Day this year.

Wellington City Council has been forced to limit and halt services such as roading and recycling, as Covid-19 sweeps through its workforce and contractors.

An urgent $10m flood protection scheme for Westport could grow larger, with the cost falling on ratepayers if central Government doesn't contribute.

The head of Gisborne's civil defence has warned residents near East Cape to prepare to be cut off by flooding next week.

An unmarked police motorbike is being trialled in Canterbury.

A man with a serious stab wound was found on a footpath in Palmerston North early this morning.

A man has been critically injured after he was pulled from a vehicle and assaulted on the Waikato Expressway this afternoon.

Cars have briefly given way to horses in the Manawatū town of Feilding as riders clipped and clopped through the CBD with a call to remember them.

A paramotor pilot who died on a flight on the West Coast was seen flying at a low height before the fatal accident. The CAA's now warning pilots to be aware of height requirements.

Independent fuel retailer Waitomo is warning of a looming unprecedented rise in prices, but one of its rivals says it does not see a benefit in suddenly reacting to every single price shift in the market.

Drivers should prepare to pay up to $4 a litre for petrol, according to the Automobile Association.