With a booster shot now in the picture, the rate of vaccination uptake has lowered even further for elderly Indians, with the 65 plus age bracket sitting at just 86 percent triple jabbed.

A survivor of the Christchurch mosque attacks has finished a gruelling 360 kilometre walk to arrive at Al Noor Mosque.

The cost of taking a train, bus or ferry will soon be temporarily halved to help counter the rising cost of living but not all commuters expect to rake in the savings.

Tourism operators are hopeful the border could be open in time for Australians to eat our hot cross buns this Easter.

Whangārei's parking meters are out of action for the next six weeks in a bid to lure people back into town.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says it is clear that the number of cases in Auckland is on the way down but in Wellington, case rates are increasing rapidly.

There have been 21,616 new cases of Covid-19 in the community and 960 people are in hospital.

Tests have been unable to determine what substance was sprayed at police in an incident during the occupation of Parliament grounds.

Police are appealing for witnesses to a crash in which a teenager died in central Nelson.

In the most successful breeding season since the sea lions returned to Dunedin shores, 20 pups were tagged from St Kilda to Warrington.

Dilworth School is progressing with redress plans for survivors of sexual abuse at the boys' school.

Police have again put out a call for video footage of an assault on the Waikato Expressway last Friday.

A young man who caused the death of an RSE worker while driving a van on the Napier-Taupō highway has been convicted and disqualified from driving for 12 months.

The Covid-19 vaccine booster needs a rebrand because it sounds like it is an "optional extra", says a public health expert, as worry rises about stalling rates.

The government has scored well in a report card about how it is implementing 44 recommendations from the Royal Commission into the 15 March mosque attacks.

Online Islamophobia was reported 18 times as often in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and real-world Islamophobia quadrupled, a new report has found.

Some general practices and community health providers say they're already stretched and are bracing for cases to peak over next few weeks.

Sex workers have a long history of trading under a red light, but the new phase of the coronavirus pandemic has left many struggling for financial survival as vulnerable people in danger.