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Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield is "reluctant" to refer those in the Papatoetoe cluster who breached lockdown restrictions to police. Audio

The National Party wants Covid-19 rule-breakers to be slapped with tough sanctions after Auckland was plunged back into lockdown over the weekend. Audio

Analysis: The government wants the Reserve Bank to curb house prices, Parliament passes the Māori wards bill, and an MP gets away with a rude word in the House.

The comparison of new Māori ward legislation with apartheid South Africa by the ACT Party has been labelled offensive and insulting.

There has been little annual change in the number of children living in poverty across most measures, but there has been a drop in the number of whānau struggling to provide the basics.

Parliament this week was pretty truncated, days were short and many MPs watched from home. But it did manage something unusual - an urgent debate.

Analysis: The government orders a three-day lockdown to deal with another Covid-19 outbreak but border security is again under scrutiny and the opposition isn't happy.

The ACT Party is accusing the government of failing to keep New Zealanders safe, citing the number of gang members with gun licences increasing under its watch.

A decision on alert levels is due tomorrow; use of the Covid Tracer app may be made compulsory; and another recession may be looming.

The Covid-19 response minister says public health is being put at risk because of attacks against border workers. Read back through RNZ's blog for 16 February.

The ACT Party wants Parliament's special Epidemic Response Committee to reconvene, but National and the Greens think it is not needed.

Analysis: Replacing the Resource Management Act will take years, the prime minister faces vaccine questions in Parliament and a bill to stop the referendum veto on Māori wards.

Parliament is back and so is Question Time. The first week involved releasing a head of steam by firing a lot of grapeshot.

Green Party list MP Ricardo Menéndez March says he travelled to Mexico to visit his terminally ill step-mother and father who is recovering from major surgery.

The repeal and replacement of the RMA is incredibly complex, and time will be taken to get the legislation right, the Environment Minister says.