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Anxiety levels are high in Tamaki Makaurau after news three members of the same South Auckland family have tested positive for Covid-19, causing the city to be moved to Alert Level 3.

The Prime… Audio

Auckland is now at Alert Level 3 for three days until midnight Wednesday, while the rest of the country is at Alert Level 2 for the same period.

The Prime Minister made the announcement last night… Audio

Initial tests show no lead contamination in the Waikouaiti River, but there are still more results to come and the Otago Regional Council has ramped up surveillance.

The river feeds the reservoir… Video, Audio

Another person linked to the Pullman Hotel outbreak has tested positive for Covid-19. The new case is the mother of the child who tested positive with the South African strain of the virus last week.

 Professor of International Law, Al Gillespie, says the country is a powder keg of religious and social divide. Audio

No more people will be put into managed isolation at the Pullman hotel until further notice.

Tenani French is in managed isolation at the Pullman and joins Lisa Owen with the details. Video, Audio

The two new cases of Covid-19 identified in the Auckland community last night are the South African variant. Audio

Professor Michael Baker joins Kathryn to talk about the three Covid cases that have now been linked to the Pullman Hotel MIQ facility. Audio

Two new people have tested positive for Covid-19.

The pair, who left managed isolation from the Pullman Hotel on 15 January, were confirmed to have caught the virus on Wednesday night.

National… Audio

There are concerns about how any Covid-19 outbreak might impact vulnerable communities in the North.

Māori were very proactive with iwi checkpoints and mass testing when Covid-19 first arrived in the… Audio

Health authorities are urgently trying to find out how a woman tested positive for Covid-19 in Northland after completing 14 days of managed isolation. After leaving isolation in Auckland's Pullman… Audio

RNZ's correspondent in Washington DC, Simon Marks, updates Philippa Tolley with the latest information from the still-reeling capital. Audio

Two people have died and three are injured after a helicopter crash north of Kaikōura.

Emergency services were called to the crash on the beach at about twenty-to-one, and one of those first on the… Audio

Sixteen homes have been evacuated on Christchurch's Port Hills, after fire again broke out this afternoon.

Emergency services say they've contained the scrub fire, but are staying on scene overnight… Video, Audio

Sixteen homes have been evacuated on Christchurch's Port Hills this afternoon because of a fire.

Fire and Emergency has told RNZ the fire was caused by sparks from a construction site.

Smoke has… Video, Audio

The group that's been fighting to get toxic waste out of the Southland town of Mataura (Ma-tow-ra) for years is baffled by the latest delay. Audio

Michael Jordan may have finished playing professional basketball almost two decades ago but the shoes that bear his name continue to attract attention.

Overnight over 100 people queued outside… Audio

Kiwi director Jessica Hobbs tells us about filming season four of popular Netflix series, The Crown. Video, Audio

The retail workers union says the case of Covid-19 - which has emptied Auckland's CBD this morning - shows workers need more sick leave.

The woman was told to isolate after taking a Covid-19 test… Audio

Aucklanders are anxiously waiting to find out today if they'll have to deal with another Covid-19 clampdown as health officials work round the clock to contain a new mystery community case.

They have… Audio

Workers in Auckland's CBD are being asked to stay at home on Friday if at all possible as Health authorities race to find the source of a new community case of Covid-19.

A woman in her 20s returned a… Video, Audio

Napier residents are being warned to take care in potentially contaminated flood waters, as the city moves to mop up after a one-in-250-year flood that swamped the city's wastewater system.

It's… Video, Audio

RNZ Hawke's Bay reporter Tom Kitchin joins us with the latest from a flooded street in Napier. Video, Audio

Anusha Bradley reports from Napier, which has seen record rain and flooding. Audio

Following more cases of quarantine staff being infected with COVID-19, Jesse talks to Dr Siouxsie Wiles about the need to protect border workers and their families from the virus. Audio