The Prime Minister has gone on a marketing blitz to reel Australians to our shores.

A coroner who investigated five deaths in the Wellington region has made dozens of recommendations about the mental health care provided to the people responsible.

An expert is raising concern over a device set to be launched in pharmacies which aims to measure how protected people are against Covid-19 infection.

Former All Black Zac Guildford has been sentenced to nine months home detention after stealing more than $40,000 from his grandfather and deceiving a friend out of $60,000.

Specialist marine mammal medics are working to save a pilot whale that restranded near the scene of a mass beaching at Farewell Spit yesterday.

Omicron has put the brakes on booster vaccine rates and communities lagging behind could stay there for some time, but health officials still have to tell some people who have had Covid-19 to wait.

Dunedin's Kavanagh College will be renamed after an investigation found its namesake failed to take appropriate action over claims of abuse.

The 31-year-old man who was viciously assaulted by a group of people remains in a stable but critical condition in hospital, police say.

There are 14,128 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today and 943 people in hospital, according to the Ministry of Health.

Health authorities are increasingly optimistic the Omicron outbreak has peaked in Auckland, but say the current rate of booster shots is still too low. Watch the media conference here

A homicide investigation has been launched in the Coromandel this afternoon after a 43-year-old man was found dead.

An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city's dire hospital staffing shortage.

A large search for missing man David Holland through Pāpāmoa sand dunes will take place tomorrow.

Putting New Zealand's own history of the centre of the country's schooling is is the sign of a mature society and will help address inequities, educators say.

The region, which includes Gisborne and the East Cape, has the highest per capita rate of Covid-19 in the country.

Three men facing charges relating to the death of Nelson man Lake Takimoana have denied the accusations.

Twenty-three hotels and thousands of managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) rooms are now sitting empty across the country, as the system winds down.

If the Steps to Freedom grant had kept up with inflation, it would be about $700 today.