投稿者: Eva Corlett in Wellington
Older people described how they coped with enforced isolation, with some finding the experience positiveA trove of nearly 800 letters recording the lockdown experiences of older New Zealanders has been collected in a University of Auckland research pro…
The man is reported to have visited several different immunisation clinics and was paid by others to get the dosesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand health authorities are investigating claims that a man received up…
More parents in New Zealand are giving their babies indigenous names to foster links with their ancestry and cultureNine-month-old Ruataupare Te Ropuhina Florence Whiley-Whaipooti will grow up speaking the names of her ancestors. She will learn she com…
Advocates welcome bill allowing for self-identification they say upholds rights for transgender and non-binary New ZealandersNew Zealand’s rainbow community will be allowed to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates without providing eviden…
Two years ago New Zealand’s Whakaari volcano eruption killed 22 people and changed the lives of many others foreverOn a pristine day two years ago, a group of mostly international day-trippers boarded boats and chugged over to Whakaari/White Island, a …
Successor Christopher Luxon said Collins had a ‘real passion’ for new portfolio of science and innovationNew Zealand’s former opposition leader Judith Collins has been demoted from the National party’s frontbench and tumbled 18 places in its ranks, nea…
Without a resale royalty scheme, struggling artists are missing out on much needed money for their workThis month New Zealand artist Ayesha Green watched in surprise as one of her artworks fetched $48,000 at auction – $29,000 more than she sold it for …
Indigenous settlers of the Chatham Islands celebrate ‘significant milestone’ as treaty enshrined in law apologises for wrongs and returns landAfter more than 150 years of struggle for justice, truth and reparation, the Moriori people of Rēkohu, or the …
‘Priceless’ artefacts recording details of the famed expeditions of the 1910s were discovered in the vaults of New Zealand’s meterological service“Priceless” artefacts linked to Antarctic explorers Ernest Shackleton and Capt Robert Falcon Scott have be…
Stargazers will be able to see longest partial eclipse visible from New Zealand since 1212New Zealanders looking to the sky on Friday night will be treated to an incredibly rare lunar spectacle, not seen in their sky in more than 800 years.The longest …
Police say the animal, thought to be either an escaped pet or a juvenile, kept charging at the woman when she left her houseA possum has been released without charge after it held a woman “hostage” at her home, New Zealand police say.Officers received …
The bird has failed to complete the non-stop, 12,200km journey three times in the past yearA plucky migrating godwit that captured New Zealand’s attention after it was forced to make a dramatic U-turn back to Alaska after 33 hours of non-stop flight ha…
Colin and Donna Craig-Brown have named the 17.4lb tuber Doug and have been taking him for walksA giant 7.9kg potato found in a New Zealand couple’s overgrown garden may set a new world record for the largest of its kind ever to be discovered.Colin and …
News comes as deputy PM squashes idea that Aucklanders may be given time slots to leave the city over the summerA person with Covid-19 who was self-isolating alone in their Auckland home has been found dead and investigations are under way to determine…