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Masterton District Council's former communications chief has joined the opposition to its civic centre project.

The first repatriation flight from New Delhi has landed in Darwin following the end of the federal government's controversial ban on travel from India.

Meeting All Blacks, posing for superhero portraits and a first-ever flight ensured a day to remember for some Koru Care kids.

If you need cash in Myanmar, you have to get up early. Queues start forming outside banks at 4am, where the first 15 or 30 customers are given a plastic token that will allow them to enter the bank…

Nurses have voted to strike for an eight-hour period in a month's time over a breakdown in pay offer negotiations.

Residential construction costs grew at their fastest rate in two years at the start of 2021 and there is no sign of a slowing.

The IOC says it supports Japanese measures to counter Covid-19 and is confident the Tokyo Olympics would be a "historic" event.

Pacific languages is key to the well-being for all its people in New Zealand, the government says.

This last week of Ramadan Kadambari Raghukumar talks to two women athletes observing the fast during the Holy Month.

The travel pause with New South Wales will lift tomorrow, subject to no further significant developments in NSW, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says.

The NSW government will to re-introduce a raft of restrictions for Greater Sydney after the state recorded a second new locally-acquired COVID-19 case.

The decision by Samoa's head of state to call a second election will be challenged in the courts, as the country's month-long political stalemate descends into legal quagmire.

 Long awaited reforms on hate speech have gone before Cabinet - and they're stirring up unease and discontent.

More than $900m allocated for the Covid Response and Recovery Fund was unspent, Minister Grant Robertson said in a pre-Budget speech.

A forum of scientific advisers warned Indian officials of a new and more contagious variant of Covid-19 taking hold in the country, five scientists who are part of the forum say.

Fiji's government has taken the most drastic measures since Covid-19 hit the country in March last year.

Families in Israel have begun burying their loved ones after at least 45 people died in a crush at a crowded Orthodox Jewish festival overnight.

A traveller, who unwittingly entered a common area of the Brisbane International Airport yesterday after arriving on a flight from Papua New Guinea, has tested positive to coronavirus.

Two of Fiji's latest cases of Covid-19 are being investigated by authorities to determine the source of transmission for both persons.

People arriving in New Zealand from Brisbane are being asked to monitor their health for the next 14 days, after a reported green zone breach at Brisbane Airport.

It was hugs and tears all round today as family and friends reunited on the first day of the trans-Tasman bubble. RNZ's photographers were there to capture some of the emotional reunions.