Katie Todd

MIQ hotels have recorded 117 escapes, attempted escapes, or residents wandering about in off-limits areas of their hotels in just 10 months.

The breaches have all happened since September last year… Audio

Expectant couples caught up in the MIQ booking backlog are begging for help so they can be reunited before the baby arrives.

Others are desperate to get back in the country so they can give birth… Audio

RNZ reporter Katie Todd is at the Claudelands testing centre where yesterday there were long long lines of cars at testing centres with many people being turned away. Audio

Cases numbers around the Motu continue to climb with positive results now in the Manawatū, Waikato and Auckland regions.

The virus has now infected a newborn baby in North Shore hospital as well as a… Audio

Reporter Katie Todd is in Hamilton. She spoke to Kim Hill from the testing centre at Claudelands Event Centre. Audio

Waikato, Raglan, Te Kauwhata, Huntly, Ngāruawāhia and Taupiri are now in Alert Level 3 after two cases were reported yesterday.

RNZ reporter Katie Todd travelled from Auckland to Hamilton yesterday… Audio

Raglan, Te Kauwhata, Huntly, Nga-rua-wahia and Taupiri are now in Alert Level 3 after two cases were reported yesterday with no known links to the Auckland outbreak. The two new cases, who are known… Audio

The mother of slain police constable Matthew Hunt has condemned the getaway driver for her 'unbelievable' selfishness on the day her son was gunned down.

Natalie Bracken has been sentenced to 12… Audio

Psychologists say there's emerging evidence of long-term and in some cases 'severe' effects from time spent in MIQ, brought on by a lack of control, autonomy and social contact.

While many returnees… Audio

Government figures suggest taxpayers paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to accommodate visiting sports teams last year.

Documents provided to RNZ show every member of a cricket team that stayed in… Audio

Documents sourced by RNZ show that government ministers pressed for a dedicated MIQ facility to accommodate international sports teams.

Officials were told by Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins… Audio

The Auckland couple who travelled to Wanaka while the city was at Covid-19 alert level 4 have been charged. Police say William Willis and Hannah Rawnsley have been summonsed to appear in the Papakura… Audio

At least 15 rest homes are turning down new admissions because the migrant nurses they've hired can't get into the country.

Short-staffed care homes are regularly firing out official notices to the… Audio

It was full steam ahead at mass vaccination clinics in Auckland today with thousands of doses delivered across the city.

And vaccine stocks are getting replenished, with an 250,000 extra Pfizer jabs… Audio

The number of visitors showing up at Auckland hospitals during alert level four is among the highest in the country, and staff and patients aren't happy.

The DHB's visitor policy is under fire for… Audio

The nurses' organisation is concerned about hospital visitor rules in Auckland, which are allowing hundreds of people to visit patients every day during Alert Level Four. It says hospital staff are… Audio

A 19-year-old who fled the LynnMall stabbings and helped a wounded woman, says she felt shakey and mistrusting going to another supermarket a couple of days later.

Monica Seve and her boyfriend were… Audio

A criminologist who assessed the New Lynn attacker's risk to the community in 2018, says he strongly believes the stabbings could have been prevented.

When Ahamed Samsudeen was sentenced in July… Audio

At midnight last night, Northland joined the rest of the country - south of Auckland - in alert level 3.

Auckland will remain at level four until at least 13 September, and police have set up five… Audio

Ruined cars, sodden belongings and ripped up gardens. West Aucklanders have been taking stock of what they lost in Monday night's deluge.

Bethells Beach remains cut off because of a washed-out… Video, Audio