投稿者: Eva Corlett in Wellington
Auckland and the neighbouring region of Northland are likely to stay in level 4 lockdown for another two weeksSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand will remain in a full lockdown until midnight on Tuesday, with regions south of Auckland moving to…
An Instagram account had called on people to get involved in the Queen Street demonstrationA one-person anti-lockdown protest in central Auckland has been shut down, after the police were alerted to discussions of a potential gathering on social media….
Jacinda Ardern said outbreak was not thought to have peaked and that country must ‘hold the course’See all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s nationwide lockdown is extending until at least the end of the week, as the country battles to contain an o…
Chris Hipkins said the Delta variant was ‘like nothing we’ve dealt with so far’The arrival of the Delta strain in New Zealand has prompted the country’s Covid-19 response minister to question the efficacy of its ambitious elimination strategy – an appr…
Total case numbers grow to 31, including three in Wellington, as Jacinda Ardern urges public to stay vigilantSee all our coronavirus coverageThe whole of New Zealand will remain in lockdown until midnight Tuesday, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has anno…
Regional hub in New Plymouth – built on land seized from Māori in 1960 – is up against the likes of New York’s LaGuardia for Unesco’s Prix Versailles A tiny regional airport in New Zealand that weaves a Māori story of love and longing into its architec…
Auckland cluster grows to 21 as prime minister says 12-year-olds will be eligible for vaccine from SeptemberNew Zealand’s coronavirus cluster has grown to 21, with a strong link discovered to a case at the border, as the country began day two of a nati…
Friends of the musician, who also mentored young people, have described him as a ‘kind, generous person’ Tributes are pouring in for New Zealand hip-hop artist Louie Knuxx, whose real name is Todd Williams, after he died of a heart attack, in Melbourne…
Panel says country should also continue to pursue ambitious Covid elimination strategy, even after border reopens New Zealand should take a phased approach to reopening its border but not before a high percentage of the population is vaccinated, accord…
Climate report says country will suffer rain and floods in the south and drought and fires in the northThe first major assessment of its kind in seven years from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found the globe’s ocean, land and a…
The birds exist in a pest-control grey area, with no agency taking the lead, allowing the population to boomThey are aggressive, territorial, noisy and excrete more than a kilogram of faeces a day. Now huge flocks of Canada geese have made parts of rur…
The death knell has sounded for the $10-a-bottle Bernadino spumante after its owner announced it was stopping productionNew Zealanders are mourning the end of one of the country’s cheapest sparkling wines, a beverage that for many was the defining drin…
Billionaire reportedly made trip after his child fell ill in Fiji and needed hospital treatment in New Zealand The billionaire co-founder of Google Larry Page was reportedly granted entry into New Zealand, despite the border being closed to non-residen…
Report says 10% increase in child poverty hit Māori and Pasifika children hardestAn additional 18,000 New Zealand children were pushed into poverty in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research, despite child welfare being one o…
Jacinda Ardern said it was the ‘right step’ to allow return of woman and her children from TurkeyNew Zealand has agreed that a suspected member of Islamic State who grew up in Australia can be repatriated from Turkey along with her two young children, …