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Johnson & Johnson says its single-dose vaccine was 66 percent effective in preventing Covid-19 in a large global trial against multiple variants.

The EU's drugs regulator has approved the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for all adults.

A two-year rāhui on the waters around Waiheke Island - a bid to stop populations of four species of kaimoana from collapsing - is being put in place this weekend.

In today's sports news - World tennis No.1 beaten but happy to be back, Detry leads Dubai classic and concussion subs for Premier League.

About 300,000 people are expected to leave Hong Kong for Britain using a new visa route which opens on Sunday.

The proposed introduction of Māori wards at Tauranga City Council will go to a referendum after a petition calling for a community vote met a necessary threshold. The proposed introduction...

Each year Jo Bonner and the team at Coastlands Plant Nursery in Whakatane grow 300,000 spinifex and pingao plants for dune replanting at beaches around the North Island.

More details have emerged about two new community cases, Australia extended its travel bubble suspension, and changes were announced for people staying in managed isolation.

The National Iwi Chairs pandemic response group has called for the number of Kiwis returning home to be restricted to 1500 a week.

A decision to grant consent for the removal row of trees planted by community volunteers along a revitalised waterway in South Auckland has outraged residents.

Australia has been advised about a small number of people who travelled on 'green zone' flights and were at the Pullman Hotel at the same time as the now confirmed cases of Covid-19.

The government has highlighted its plans to move on its election promises to clean up transport emissions.

The community case of Covid-19 in Northland and two Auckland cases have been confirmed as the highly-transmissable South African variant of the coronavirus. Here's what we know about the variant. Video

Britain's Covid-19 deaths passed 100,000 on Tuesday, more than the country's civilian toll in WWII.

Northlanders line up for tests and Ardern announces NZ's a step closer to getting a vaccine. Here's a summary of today's Covid-19 news.

National is calling on the government to introduce urgent temporary legislation to make it easier to build houses.

National is calling on the government to introduce urgent temporary legislation to make it easier to build houses.

Rioters attacked police and set cars and bikes on fire to protest against a curfew introduced on Saturday.

More locations of interest linked to a Covid-19 community case in Northland have been revealed as queues grow outside testing stations, and Australia suspends quarantine free travel in light of the…

At least 267 companies have dumped contaminants into New Zealand's drains in the past year. Here we give them the opportunity to comment.