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Ruapehu District councillors are to hold a workshop to help decide whether to open meetings with a karakia or any prayer, after a councillor walked out in protest at a karakia.

Taranaki Regional councillors have rejected calls from Māori for two seats at next year's local body elections.

The Kawerau mayor and councillors were so moved by the passionate presentations of submitters calling on them to reverse their decision not to establish Māori wards that they are making enquiries…

Under reviews being considered, 20 percent of the region's proposed 44 councillors would come from new designated Māori wards.

The Prime Minister confirms deal with Spain for more vaccine, nurses horrified by visitor numbers at Auckland hospitals and a Māori leader calls for new approach to get rangatahi vaccinated.

Experts say the government needs to prioritise more funding and health resources for South Auckland, which will remain New Zealand's ongoing front line in the battle against Covid-19.

Horizons Regional Council is proposing two new Māori constituencies for its local election in October next year, each with one elected member.

Rapid antigen testing would have been useful in the case of the Middlemore patient who has Covid-19, National Party leader Judith Collins says.

A Māori wards advocate says Ruapehu District Council's refusal to lift its proposal for Māori ward seats from two to three is "another example" of why Māori turn their back on participation in local…

New Zealand recorded another 83 cases today, while epidemiologist Michael Baker warned the country will not see a return to level 1 "as we know it". Discover the latest Covid-19 news in our daily…

The number of new community Covid-19 cases jumped to 82 today, while 25 people are in hospital with the virus including two who are in a stable condition in intensive care.

There have been 70 new cases of Covid-19 in the community reported in New Zealand today.

A South Auckland church's Facebook account was hit with racial abuse when it was named a Covid-19 location of interest, but the community is refusing to be dragged down by the comments.

There's growing concern about a cluster of Covid-19 cases linked to an Auckland church in Māngere.

There's been considerable pushback over the Coromandel Mayor saying she had not been scanning in using the Covid-19 tracer app. Audio

The Reserve Bank looks set to deliver its first rise in the official cash rate in seven years on Wednesday.

The Ruapehu District Council is being asked to increase the number of Māori seats under its representation proposal.

Oranga Tamariki was warned about restraints at a Christchurch care and protection residence months before it was finally closed.

Doctors fear New Zealand's health system could quickly collapse in the event of an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19.

The rejig of representation in Tairāwhiti that includes the introduction of Māori wards has reached the next stage with the release of proposed ward structures.

Taranaki Regional Council has rejected iwi calls for only Māori to have a say when considering Māori wards.

Minister for Children Kelvin Davis has called for an investigation into the treatment of a young child by Oranga Tamariki.