Auckland Region

A homicide investigation has been launched by the police after a woman's body was discovered in the south Auckland suburb of Manurewa over the weekend.

Police are criticising a couple who used their essential worker status to get to Hamilton and then flew to their holiday home in Wanaka.

All 15 patients and six staff at a men's mental-health hospital in Auckland were able to evacuate safely when a fire broke out last night.

Police are investigating after a woman's body was found at a property in Manurewa around 4.30pm today.

What happens if your bubble includes dozens of other people? Michelle Cooke checked in with a transitional housing facility and an intentional community to find out how they are managing lockdown.

Sixty-one people have been charged with failing to comply with Covid-19 orders since the alert level 4 lockdown came into effect in Auckland.

An MIQ worker at the Holiday Inn facility in Auckland has tested positive for Covid-19 during routine testing.

One of the positive cases from the Assemblies of God Church of Samoa cluster has shared his experience of recuperating from Covid-19 while in quarantine with his family of eight.

The road connecting Te Henga Bethells Beach to the rest of Auckland has been restored after severe flooding cut access to the coastal settlement.

Te Matatini Herenga Waka Herenga Tangata Kapa Haka festival has taken precautions in light of the lockdown and Delta outbreak.

The government has bought the extra doses from Spain to tide it through until its next major shipment from Pfizer in October and prevent a slowing in the high vaccination rates sparked by alert level…

The LynnMall Countdown is likely to reopen tomorrow with increased security measures - a week after the terror attack which left seven people injured. Audio

The head of a small business in Auckland says new weekly Covid-19 test requirements for essential workers crossing the alert-level border mean firms like her's are 'getting whacked'. Audio

The nurses' union says it is absurd that the DHB has the softest visitor policy of any DHB in the country, despite the heightened risk in Auckland. Audio

Two people have been critically injured in a two-vehicle collision in Auckland.

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.

A leading microbiologist says there may be a need to introduce rapid Covid-19 testing in hospitals as Middlemore's chief medical officer says coronavirus screening is rigorous. Audio

'Sightseers' flouting lockdown rules have been visiting west Auckland to have a peek at nearly 80 homes significantly damaged by flooding last week.