A shake-up to the country's waste system is hoped to cut down the near 13 million tonnes of waste New Zealand sends to landfill every year.

Demand for food parcels and support is so overwhelming a Māori health provider in Auckland says it's forced to turn people away.

Eight more people with Covid-19 have died in New Zealand, while the number of new community cases has fallen to 14,494 today.

Cat shelters are reporting pandemic-related trends, with a kitten boom and some unintended lockdown effects surfacing.

A self-employed builder is desperate to be reunited with her dog, after it was stolen along with her ute and tools from a driveway yesterday in Christchurch.

Tapestries including two that were slashed with knives and bayonets have pride of place at a new exhibition in New Plymouth.

It's one of the biggest buzz words online these days: NFTs. Are they a gimmicky, expensive status symbol or are they a starting point for a technological revolution? RNZ is here to clear it all up.

A Ukraine Peace Flotilla has arrived outside the Northland home of Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov to protest.

There are strong signs Auckland is passing its peak for Covid-19 case numbers, a modeller says, but hospitalisations and other regions' cases are not there yet.

Police are appealing for information about missing Tauranga man David Holland.

A Christchurch food bank has had to install a new phone system to record calls after an increase in abuse from clients.

A flock of young kāka chicks have fledged in the Abel Tasman, boosting the population of native parrots in the national park.

Two people have died in crashes in Manawatū and Nelson early this morning and a pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle in Bay of Plenty last night.

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.

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.

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.

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.