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Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has taken an optimistic view on the move to the orange Covid protection level at the end of December.

"I'm not surprised because the government has exercised caution. And… Read more Video, Audio

Thousands of people are still without vaccine passes, waiting for their overseas jabs to be added to New Zealand register.

When the Ministry of Health was swamped in the weeks leading up to the… Read more Audio

Northland Chamber of Commerce chief executive Steve Smith says the decision to keep the region in red level limits is not what he was expecting, "and certainly not what we were hoping for".

"Any form… Read more Video, Audio

So Auckland will stay in the red zone until midnight on December 30. Our reporter Louise Ternouth is in Onehunga.

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Regions in red level protections will move to orange at the end of December, the government has announced.

The only exception is Northland, which will stay in red until cabinet next reviews the… Read more Video, Audio

Anti-violence advocates want more Pacific workers to be employed and a cross party approach to the government's new plan to tackle family and sexual harm.

New Zealand announced its first National… Read more Audio

The government's unveiled a plan to tidy up and modernise laws that protect wildlife.

The conservation minister's got her eye on little blue penguins and bats - ensuring that development around them… Read more Audio

Women and Māori beneficiaries are having to pay back their debt to the Ministry of Social Development at a higher rate than their male and Pākehā counterparts.

Māori on average also owe more to MSD… Read more Audio

After two High Court judicial reviews, the Director General of Health is releasing data of unvaccinated Māori in the North Island - but with clear conditions.

Whānau Ora first took the Ministry of… Read more Audio

Now to Dunedin where prehistoric predators of the deep have taken over Otago Museum.

The Sea Monsters exhibition opens its five-month run there tomorrow.

Our Otago-Southland reporter, Timothy Brown… Read more Video, Audio

On the outskirts of Auckland St Nick has apparently traded the sleigh for a sturdy tinsel covered van.

Mother of seven Jennifer Orr-Havill does the rural courier delivery run around her Helensville… Read more Video, Audio

The Covid treatment kit keeps getting larger, with health authorities ordering 120,000 courses of antivirals to combat mild to moderate Covid cases.

The joint effort from the Ministry of Health and… Read more Audio