Lisa Owen

Meanwhile a Shia Islamic centre is closing for at least two weeks in an effort to stop coronavirus spreading in its community.

Other gatherings and public events are largely going ahead, but with an… Audio

The government remains divided over the second tranche of gun reforms and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters can't say when agreement might be reached.

That means any hope Labour had of passing… Audio

A Samoan chief on trial for human trafficking and slavery says a nine-foot fence around his property was to keep his family safe from the Mongrel Mob, not to lock people in.

Sixty-five-year-old… Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

New Zealand's six major banks have announced they will not be participating in tomorrow's Wellington International Pride Parade.

The last-minute decision was a collective one, made by the banks'… Audio

Drinking games, stripping and nudity from a police senior sergeant.

This is what was captured on CCTV cameras the night a male police officer allegedly raped his female colleague in Northland.

The… Audio

New Zealand's Covid-19 count is officially four, with the husband of an already infected Auckland woman returning a positive test for coronavirus.

The couple returned home from Northern Italy on… Audio

Tributes have been flowing for the former Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons, who died suddenly last night aged 75.

Ms Fitzsimons was hospitalised on Thursday after falling while out working on the… Video, Audio

Former Dunedin doctor Venod Skantha will spend almost two decades behind bars before he is even eligible for parole for the murder of teenager Amber-Rose Rush.

The 32-year-old was sentenced to life… Audio

Could this be the return of doctors' house calls and carpark visits in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak?

A primary health organisation is warning people with symptoms that could be conronavirus not… Video, Audio

An inmate at the country's highest security prison has died this afternoon in what Corrections describe as a prisoner on prisoner assault.

Police are investigating the attack in Auckland Prison at… Video, Audio

Families fighting to have overseas grandparents visit their newborn grandchildren say unfair health restrictions are keeping them apart.

It has led one couple to take their baby to India to be looked… Audio

WARNING: Story includes graphic details of a sexual nature.

A female police officer has described waking up in pain as her colleague raped her in a Northland motel.

A video of the woman's police… Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

Doctors are pleading with people who suspect they may have coronavirus to stay home and seek help over the phone rather than visiting medical centres.

An Auckland woman who has COVID-19 tested… Audio

Meanwhile National MP David Bennett is facing heavy criticism for saying people should be panic buying in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Hamilton East MP told a local radio station people… Audio

The Opposition has savaged the Health Minister over his coronavirus response, questioning his competency and calling him out-of-his-depth.

It comes after a communications muddle this morning - where… Video, Audio

The Director of Public Health has refused to name the clinics visited by a North Shore woman who later tested positive for coronavirus.

But one of those clinics, revealed after the Ministry's press… Video, Audio

An Auckland school caught up in the fallout from the Covid-19 outbreak is continuing business as usual, despite one if its students being in isolation.

Auckland Grammar was notified at midday… Video, Audio

The country's newest case of corona virus is the first to be caught and transmitted in New Zealand that health officials know of.

A man in his 40s is the first known to have contracted the disease… Audio