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During alert level lockdowns we'll broadcast each day live from the 1pm media briefing to update case numbers and information about differing alert levels around the country. Audio

Northland will stay in lockdown level 4 for another few days while health officials monitor the recent cases in Warkworth.

The region will likely drop to level 3 on Thursday night.

Ko taku hoa… Video, Audio

There was no increase in cases in Wellington today - with the total standing at 14.

But the city will move to alert level 3 limits on Tuesday night.

Our reporter Ben Strang is in Courtenay Place and… Video, Audio

Lockdown is working, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says, but as Covid-19 community case numbers are still high, the country is staying in lockdown level 4 until 11:59pm Tuesday 31 August.

After that… Audio

As you've heard in the news, Kabul airport has come under attack by what appears to be a suicide bomber. Let's waste no time and head to Washington where Nathan Rarere is joined by Simon Marks. Audio

Aotearoa's Covid-19 Delta cluster has had another jump today - 68 new cases, bringing the total to 277.

263 are in Auckland and 14 are in Wellington. The two new Wellington cases are household… Audio

At least 15,000 contacts and more than 400 locations of interest: as covid-19 cases rise, so too do the number of places where Aucklanders may have been exposed to it.

On the list: almost 30… Audio

Covid-19 case numbers are still rising - with 41 new community infections reported today.

That figure is expected to get worse before it gets better. With almost 150 community cases, officials say… Audio

Political editor Jane Patterson is at Parliament where the House meeting has been suspended for a week.

Select committees are continuing virtually.

RNZ political editor Jane Patterson has the… Video, Audio

We've heard a lot about the 'team of five million,' but this past week people have started talking about a 'team of four million' - which is to say, the number of unvaccinated New Zealanders.

Our… Audio

On Thursday, the second day of Level 4 lockdown, locations of interest continue to balloon to well over 100.

On Thursday evening, the Ministry of Health added even more to that list.

Among them is… Audio

Covid modeller Michael Plank from the University of Canterbury Mathematics department joins Susie to explain what the latest modelling looks like. Audio

The country is anxiously awaiting new information from health authorities about the number of emerging Covid-19 cases.

One of three new cases confirmed last night has no known link to the existing… Audio

Cancellations at cafés and restaurants are coming in thick and fast because of the nationwide lockdown.

From today, no hospitality businesses can open, which is another blow to an industry that's… Audio

New Zealand is back in a nationwide lockdown for the first time since May 2020.

So how is the country taking it?

RNZ reporters took to the streets to find out. Audio

Covid-19 is back in the community and the whole of New Zealand is back in lockdown as a result.

Otago University Public Health Professor Nick Wilson told Morning Report a return to alert level 4 was… Audio

A man in his 50s has tested positive for Covid-19. He is from the Auckland suburb of Devonport, and was tested at his GP.

Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge joins Lisa Owen now from downtown… Video, Audio

Insurgent Taliban forces have taken control of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul.

New Zealand journalist Jon Stephenson, who was in Afghanistan when US forces invaded 20 years ago and has closely… Audio

Despite the government's recent attempts to slow the country's soaring house prices, latest Real Estate Institute data shows that they continue to rise and are now 31 per cent up on this time last… Audio

How much doom, gloom and catastrophising can the world take? We boil down the latest big climate change report.  Audio

The government is warning it will take a "swift and severe" approach to any future cases of Covid-19, and move quickly to Alert Level Four.

It comes as a long-awaited report into reopening our border… Audio

Global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared and humanity is almost entirely to blame, according to the most comprehensive climate change survey ever published. The latest report of the UN… Audio

Young climate change activists are describing the latest report card on the planet as a stark reminder government's need to crank up work on cutting emissions before it's too late.

They also says… Audio

A body sanctioned by the UN, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, issued its latest and most dire assessment about the state of the planet and the impact of human behaviour on the climate.

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