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It has been over a year since the Christchurch terror attacks and preparations are underway to support the families of the mosque gunman's victims ahead of his sentencing next week.

The new chief executive of Hawke's Bay District Health Board is pledging to improve services, especially for Māori and Pasifika, while also cutting the health budget.

A Westfield St Lukes retail employee with Covid-19 worked at the mall for number of days while infectious.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says all new cases relate to the existing Auckland cluster, with one based in Tokoroa. Video

Progress is promising towards producing a vaccine against Covid-19, but whichever country comes up with the goods will have immense power - what lessons can we learn from the swine flu vaccination…

Research warns streaming school classes by ability is racist and should be stopped.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says 12 of the new cases are linked to the community cases and one is under investigation but is believed to be linked. Video

The Milford Track is set to sell out on its first day of bookings with more than 1000 made in about 10 minutes after sales opened. Less than an hour later, 97 percent of dates were full.

Marlborough's council is unsure it can deliver on plans to ban non-self-contained freedom camping vehicles without legal challenges.

There are 12 new community cases of Covid-19, all in Auckland and all connected to existing cases, with one new case in managed isolation. Watch the latest media conference here. Video

Health bosses are once again condemning online abuse of Covid-positive people; staff at a cool store are anxious and TV learning for locked down children is back.

Two cases of international travellers who tested positive for Covid-19 upon arrival overseas recently are being investigated by the Ministry of Health.

There are 12 new cases and one probable case of Covid-19 in the community today, Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has revealed, with two of the new cases in Tokoroa. Watch the latest… Video

Additional Covid-19 community testing facilities are being set up in the Waikato region in response to high demand.

This timeline charts the movements of New Zealand's newest Covid-19 cluster, the actions of health authorities and the government response.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there is more information needed to find the source of the Covid-19 outbreak. Video

Rotorua residents have flocked to the city's Covid-19 testing centre after it was revealed two positive Covid-19 cases travelled there at the weekend.

After more than 100 days New Zealand has four cases of Covid-19 outside of a managed isolation or a quarantine facility.

One caller says they phoned at 6am today and an hour and a half later, he was 487 in the queue and the wait time had grown to an hour.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield says one of the latest Covid-19 cases in the community - a woman in her 20s - had travelled to Rotorua over the weekend while she was symptomatic. Video

Capacity at Auckland's community testing centres has been boosted and pop-up centres will open after the announcement of four cases of Covid-19 outside managed isolation.