投稿者: Tess McClure in Auckland
Despite their differences the nations have shared interests, Jacinda Ardern says as she plans trip to ChinaNew Zealand will continue to cooperate on “shared interests” with China, even as tensions increase in the region and China grows “more assertive …
The boy, 14 at the time of the offence, must spend at least 10 years in jail after stabbing 22-year-old Bram Willems to deathA New Zealand court has sentenced a 15-year-old boy to life in prison for a murder committed when he was 14.The sentencing coin…
Despite declaring a climate emergency, government is in court defending decision to issue fossil fuel prospecting permits in TaranakiNew Zealand’s government has argued that the climate crisis is of “insufficient weight” to stop it issuing oil and gas…
As over-harvesting of edible creatures adds to pressures on shoreline ecosystems, local groups and iwi urge temporary bans New Zealanders are calling for authorities to restrict the pillaging of the country’s rockpools and shorelines, amid fears that a…
Dr Ashley Bloomfield dramatically scales back planned event, including cancelling the karaoke, in face of Omicron surgeNew Zealand’s Covid chief has had his farewell party scuppered by a rising wave of Omicron cases.“We’ve canceled karaoke,” the direct…
Amid warnings of a healthcare workforce collapse, the population is being urged to recommit to pandemic measures many thought were behind them In supermarkets and coffee queues, New Zealand’s chins are reappearing. Masks – previously a constant – have …
More people will also be eligible for antiviral drugs as Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths riseNew Zealand will make medical masks and rapid antigen tests free to access, the government has announced, as the country fights a growing wave of Omic…
Authorities say the case is in a returned traveller who is now isolating, and is not linked to the first New Zealand has reported its second monkeypox case in a matter of days, but health authorities say the second has no link to the first.The latest i…
New Zealand prime minister says leaders had been trying to persuade Kiribati not to withdraw from the forumJacinda Ardern says total membership is “critical” for the Pacific Islands Forum in the wake of the shock departure of Kiribati on the eve of the…
People across the North Island flooded social media with reports of the object, with some describing the sound as being like an earthquakeNew Zealanders across the North Island have reported rumbling, crackling sounds, a fireball and a huge flash of li…
New Zealand PM says Russia’s war in Ukraine is morally bankrupt but should not be seen as a conflict of democracy versus autocracyThe world is “bloody messy” but must take a step back from polarisation and black-and-white approaches to conflict, Jacind…
One Auckland school has taken dozens of pupils off its register amid fears some are forced to find work as cost of living crisis hitsNew Zealand school principals are raising the alarm that students are falling off the rolls, as a wave of absenteeism f…
Signs that Omicron surge is becoming ‘more intense’, with cases rising steadily and more people in hospital than at any time since AprilNew Zealand is on the brink of another Omicron wave, experts warn, with average cases rising as immunity wanes, more…
As the overturning of Roe v Wade prompts a wave of interest in Aotearoa, Americans who made the leap post-Trump reveal the reality of their new livesLike a law of nature, each political crisis in the United States precipitates a wave of Americans despe…
In New Zealand’s first formal address to Nato, Ardern dedicated part of her speech to warning of Beijing’s increasingly muscular international presencePrime minister Jacinda Ardern has urged democratic nations to stand firm as China becomes “more asser…