A Christchurch woman says judgement and stigma over entering shops without a mask is making her anxiety - caused by incidents of childhood trauma - even worse. Read...
Fire crews had to suspend aerial efforts on the hills of Naenae due to the danger caused by a drone being flown, but the blaze has now been contained. Read...
NZ will shift to a new `traffic light` system once 90 per cent of eligible people in each DHB are double-jabbed. The plan is much more cautious than many other countries` approaches. Read...
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult says he would have preferred the South Island move to alert level 1 immediately, but the traffic light system provided a way forward. Read...
About 62 per cent of the eligible Canterbury population is fully vaccinated. Among people aged 12 to 34, that number drops to just 43 per cent. Read...
Analysis - Our epidemiologists and Covid modellers have faced an increasingly bitter series of barbs from commentators and columnists lately and it`s making their often thankless task even harder. Read...
Haitian man identifying himself as the leader of the gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries said in a video posted on YouTube on Thursday that he was willing to kill `these Americans` if he does not get what he needs. Read...
