投稿者: Tess McClure in Auckland
Virus-free for much of the pandemic, New Zealand is now reporting near-daily record case numbersSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s prime minister has warned that the country is entering a new phase of its pandemic response that is “like noth…
Experts say pandemic pressures have contributed to a huge increase in abuse and antisocial behaviourFaced with a rising tide of acrimony, rage, and online crankiness, New Zealand has launched a nationwide campaign to try to calm its citizenry down.Over…
Prime minister says number of people who get booster vaccines will dictate how high the peak will beAs New Zealand hits new records for daily case numbers, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said she expects Omicron infections to start peaking in late M…
Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi said the move was ‘an opportunity to reimagine a more meaningful and fulfilling partnership’The Māori party of New Zealand has called for a “divorce” from the crown and removal of the British royal family as New Zealand’s…
Once, singing in te reo Māori could trigger a backlash – now New Zealand’s indigenous language is at the heart of its music scene“It was never a good thing, a positive thing being Māori when I was growing up,” says Bic Runga. She sighs audibly into the…
The kea filmed some majestic views over the Kepler Track, as well as a closeup of its own slightly frenzied attack on the cameraA kleptomaniac parrot has become the latest contributor to New Zealand cinema, after stealing a GoPro camera and taking it o…
The minister responsible for New Zealand’s pandemic response says the future is ‘still something that’s the subject of models rather than reality’In the midst of an Omicron outbreak and almost two years after New Zealand shut its borders, the governmen…
A car of protestors yelled ‘shame on you’ as they pursued the prime minister’s van but Ardern says she wasn’t worried for her safetyCoronavirus – live updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said “at no po…
Jacinda Ardern says Omicron is ‘knocking at our door’ as the prime minister faces criticism over gaps in preparations for a Covid wave Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn her first press conference of the year, held outside i…
After years of complaints from neighbours and concerns about house prices, hundreds of rabbits in a suburban garden had to go ‘by any means necessary’It is a quiet suburban street in Auckland: plush lawns, manicured hedges, orderly picket fences, state…
New Zealand to be mission control for ‘MethaneSAT’ which will collect data on emissions from bovine flatulence and leaking oil and gas pipelinesIn space, no-one can hear you belch – at least, not for the time being. New Zealand has announced mission co…
Jacinda Ardern says cleaner was fully vaccinated and ‘all signs point’ to case having no connection to Australian arrivals Joy, actually: happy reunions fill Auckland airport as trans-Tasman bubble beginsA New Zealand airport worker has tested positive…
First flight lands in Auckland just after 12.30pm with hundreds more expected to make the Australia-New Zealand trip each week by end AprilCities across New Zealand are putting out the welcome mat for Australian arrivals, as trans-Tasman bubble travel …
The relics – purported to be bones of saints – were found buried in rubble of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes It might seem like an inauspicious end for a saint, being laid to rest in a Greggs coffee jar.But for the holy relics buried beneath Christchurc…