On Tuesday New Zealand recorded 11,548 new community cases of Covid-19 – the highest daily number of cases since April.

Chopper, a dog, that attacked a vet, leaving her with permanent scarring, has been allowed to return to his owner.

The woman was teaching at Cashmere High School, the same school she attended as a student a few years earlier.

Most of Aotearoa has been battered by bad weather on Tuesday - here's a breakdown of the storm by numbers.

More working families need help with groceries as inflation bites, says one social service agency.

Securing the fixed contract meant there was a "very low" chance of ratepayers having to stump up more money for the $683m project in the future, the council said.

A disability advocate says New Zealand should be ashamed of how disabled people have been treated after describing horrific scenes from institutions.

Elliot Ajay Prakash has admitted killing Val Heaney with a hockey stick, before going to bed and heading to work the following morning.

Schools now know their socio-economic score, but face an anxious wait until September to see how much funding they will receive under the new system.

Part of the problem is people do not understanding the reason why gay and bisexual men are more at risk of getting monkeypox, an advocate says.

Advice to “escape, hide, tell” during an attack is included in the stadium's new safety video, but won't play before the sold-out All Blacks decider.

Leo Kiely and Callum Wood walked two kilometres through surface flooding to get their savoury fix and say it was worth every step.

A person is in the care of paramedics after a car crash sent their vehicle plummeting into the flooded Heathcote River.

The left leaning political group has 31 candidates standing in Christchurch's local elections this year, and is pitching a raft of climate and equity-focused policies.

Patients were given electric shocks, put in seclusion and doused with fire hoses as part of “behavioural modification” therapies in the 1980s, an inquiry has heard.

The wet, wild weather that's brought flooding, felled trees, road closures, and flight cancellations around the country should ease up on Wednesday.

The forum is a "family" which regularly deals with differences, Dr Wesley Moran says after more nations pulled out of the Pacific Island Forum.

The Gore District Council is asking the Government to halt Three Waters and is calling for a national referendum to be done.

Michael Fowler is remembered as a “hurricane” who changed the face of the capital city forever.

Our political leaders have returned from the UK, where masks are a rarity, but Covid-19 is back on the rise. Here's what the experts say.