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Police are pressing pause for now on using facial recognition technology to identify people off live camera feeds, but will still use it on stored footage.

Lax Otago landowners will soon have to foot the bill if the regional council has to step in and deal with their rabbit problems.

Australia and the United States will continue to allow their citizens to travel to Fiji amid the Pacific nation recording its first cases of the Covid-19 Omicron variant this week.

The number of new Covid-19 cases has risen back into triple figures, with 106 new community cases reported in New Zealand today.

Governments around the world are urgently scouring databases for recent cases of Covid-19 infections, screening travellers and decoding the viral genomes of the new variant as they try to measure how…

A leading scientist is warning New Zealand needs to keep a close eye on the border as the Covid-19 Omicron variant spreads around the world. Audio

A Covid-19 case has been confirmed in Hawke's Bay after the person visited Hawke's Bay hospital.

Switzerland has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Western Europe and Covid-19 infections are rising exponentially, yet voters are being asked whether the country should drop some restrictions…

France pledged to step up surveillance of its northern shores, but migrants huddling in makeshift camps say nothing will stop them from trying to cross the Channel to Britain.

Covid-19 antiviral pills show promise, but experts warn they are unlikely to be available to help as the virus spreads through traffic-light New Zealand.

DIY Covid tests will be available in pharmacies from mid-December, while businesses will have access to them from next week.

The government has announced a raft of new Covid-19 support including $204.1m to support people self-isolating, $300 million for Pharmac to buy new Covid-19 medicines and making rapid antigen testing…

Most fully-vaccinated travellers into New Zealand will not need to go through managed isolation from early next year. Watch the government's latest update here.

In today's sports news - United score a win in Champions League, injury setback for India and Irish rugby legend dies.

The cost of managing an invasive "super weed", if it is not eradicated during construction of a billion-dollar Waikato development including 2500 new houses, will fall to ratepayers.

There have been 205 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today and a person has died.

PNG's government is under pressure to clarify its message about Covid vaccination, and MPs who spread baseless claims about vaccines have been asked to shut up.

The Heart Foundation says government funding for a possible rheumatic fever vaccine is an exciting step forward, which could benefit hundreds of people.

The Covid-19 community spread in the Northern Marianas shows no signs of abating as Saipan recorded its single-day high of 22 local positive cases.

A jury has acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on charges that he murdered two men and attempted to kill a third during chaotic 2020 racial justice protests in Wisconsin.

Wellington's mayor said a community case in a construction worker working in the city is low risk as the man was working outdoors, but industry experts are calling for tighter testing standards. Audio

The government will help fund University of Auckland research for a strep throat vaccine, in hopes it will prevent rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.

IT plans for Samoa; quarantine move in Marianas; and appeal for Kiribati govt to reverse decision