The agency charged with enforcing vaccine pass rules says it has no idea how many businesses have paid fines for not complying.

Two new Covid-19 variants have crept into Aotearoa, and although they have not overtaken the current dominant strain, experts are keeping a close eye on their evolution.

A crash is causing a two-hour delay in Northland as people head north for the holiday weekend.

The warning comes from an independent evaluation of a trial-run of online tests in reading, writing and maths involving 16,000 mostly Year 10 students in July.

A report giving final recommendations for the Settlement of a Collective Agreement between Fire and Emergency and the Firefighters Union has been publicly released.

Te Pāti Māori has called for the state to be held legally liable for abuse in its care, after an investigation found a litany of failures in the run-up to the five year old's death.

Hawke's Bay Police have arrested a second person in relation to the death of a man in Flaxmere earlier this month.

A former member of the Gloriavale Christian Community says she is not holding her breath for any meaningful change to take place there.

It's more than 20 years since a community garden began helping Canterbury University students grow vegetables.

A firefighters' union has announced more strike action in two weeks' time, but it will put people at risk, the head of Fire and Emergency NZ says.

New Zealanders will soon be able to use a single system to pay for public transport journeys around the country.

The sentence was handed down following the death of a passenger on a diving trip.

A judge has warned a jury not be prejudiced against a Wellington man because of the number of sexual assault charges he faces.

Two separate, multi-vehicle crashes blocked both the southbound and northbound lanes on Auckland's Northern Motorway, near the Northcote Rd on and off-ramps this afternoon.

Migrants fear delays in national security checks are causing hold-ups to decisions on their fast-track residence visas.

The price of paper is rising at its fastest rate in a decade, ramping up the pressure on publishers.

Further mortgage rates hikes may not be as severe as feared, according to a local mortgage broker.

The woman, who stole more than $1000 worth of frozen food from a foreign seasonal workers' hostel, seemed pleased with her sentence.