Katie Todd

Cabinet is to work out long-term funding for managed isolation and quarantine before the end of this year.

Figures provided to RNZ suggest the 32 hotels in use are costing taxpayers more than $2… Audio

Cabinet is poised to sign off on making masks mandatory on all public transport in Auckland and all domestic flights around the country on Monday.

Pleas to wear masks have gone largely unheeded, but… Audio

Aucklanders are anxiously waiting to find out today if they'll have to deal with another Covid-19 clampdown as health officials work round the clock to contain a new mystery community case.

They have… Audio

An Auckland man was turned away from two drive-in testing centres despite telling health workers that he lives in the same building as the city's latest community Covid-19 case.

The new positive case… Audio

Auckland Council thinks Covid-19 will punch a $1 billion hole in its finances by 2024 - but city dwellers will not find out how it will be paid for until December.

The city's budget had already been… Audio

Rural contractors warn crops will die in fields and there will be shortages of stock feed, if skilled migrant workers can't get rooms in managed isolation hotels.

They says the government promised 10… Audio

Two men remain on the run after shooting at a female police officer in Northland yesterday morning, leaving her shaken but uninjured.

The officer was driving along State Highway 11, near the Puketona… Audio

Police say they are still trying to piece together exactly what has happened, and how the two incidents may be linked.

On Tuesday afternoon, Detective Inspector Dene Begbie updated RNZ reporter Katie… Video, Audio

Two men remain on the run on Tuesday night, after a police officer was shot at in the early hours of the morning in the Bay of Islands.

While the officer escaped injury, the windscreen of the patrol… Audio

International music artists are creeping back onto summer festival line-ups, after getting border exceptions to visit the country.

The musicians have decided that two weeks in isolation is worth it… Audio

Overseas adventures remain a distant dream for New Zealand travellers - who are instead opting to embrace trips in their own backyard.

DOC is expecting a bumper summer on the Great Walks, with… Audio

Act has recorded its best election result ever, with eight percent of the party vote and 10 seats in parliament. After six years as the party's sole MP, leader David Seymour will now have a caucus to… Audio

Police are working to identify the bodies of two people found by a member of the public on the shores of Lake Taupō this morning.

Locals have described a heavy police presence -- and tents set up by… Audio

Disposable containers from millions of meals have gone straight to landfill from the country's managed isolation and quarantine hotels. To reduce the handling of waste or dishes and potential spread… Audio

An inner city Auckland rehab centre has seen a steep increase in the number of people taking synthetic cannabis and says Covid-19 stress could be to blame.

Hundreds of people suffering from drug use… Audio

The lockdowns were a tough and lonely time for many of us, in some cases stoking mental health or addiction issues. In increasing numbers people are heading to a little Auckland cafe over the weekend… Audio

Farmers sick of shooing intruders off their properties are demanding answers after some tracks were wrongly marked as roads on Google Maps.

The tech giant's conceded private tracks and driveways have… Audio

Auckland Comancheros gang leader Pasilika Naufahu has been found guilty of money laundering, along with fellow member Connor Clausen and one other person with name suppression. Naufahu and Clausen… Video, Audio

Nearly a year after Auckland's convention centre went up in flames and brought the city centre to a standstill, a report has raised concerns about the length of the shifts some firefighters put in… Audio