Settlement is the culmination of more than 30 years of fighting for reparations [Read More]

Warning of increasing inequality as global wealth report shows average wealth per adult in NZ jumped US$114,000 in 2020 [Read More]

PM Jacinda Ardern, who oversaw some of the toughest restrictions in the world, says rules will relax after Omicron peak in early April [Read More]

Door security error meant one of country’s largest city libraries was left open for hours, allowing hundreds to browse shelves [Read More]

New Zealand scientists have discovered a rare baby ghost shark, a little-known species of fish that lives in the shadowy depths of the ocean. [Read More]

New Zealand's parliament on Tuesday near-unanimously passed a legislation that bans practices intended to forcibly change a person's sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, known as conversion therapy. [Read More]

The Government will ban young people from ever being able to purchase tobacco in their lives under world-leading plans to make New Zealand in in first-ever 'smokefree generation' [Read More]

The Government will push for an international ban on fully autonomous weapons, or killer robots, that use artificial intelligence to target and kill people without any human decision-making. [Read More]

New Zealand Member of Parliament Julie Anne Genter got on her bicycle early on Sunday and headed to the hospital. She was already in labour and she gave birth an hour later. [Read More]

New Zealand will begin to move away from a zero-Covid strategy toward living with the virus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday, becoming the latest country to abandon its elimination attempts in the face of the highly-contagious Delta variant. [Read More]

All foreign nationals entering New Zealand will need to be fully vaccinated from November 1, the government announced Sunday. [Read More]

People started lining up from early morning as takeaway food outlets reopened after being shut for two weeks, while construction activity resumed and large hardware stores opened for click and collect purchases. [Read More]

Floods came after unexpectedly heavy rains, with as much as 90mm per hour hitting the city through the night [Read More]

Police have broken up a one person anti-lockdown protest in Auckland CBD on Friday. [Read More]

New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months. [Read More]

A baby orca found stranded in New Zealand has died, after a huge effort to reunite him with his mother failed. [Read More]

Fears of growing urban/rural divide as workers take to tractors to protest against measures they say are unfair [Read More]

About 30,000 nurses in New Zealand walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a nationwide eight-hour strike after negotiations with the government for better pay and working conditions failed. [Read More]

New Zealand has announced a suite of proposals aimed at outlawing smoking for the next generation and moving the country closer to its goal of being smoke-free by 2025. [Read More]

Finds include 1980s time capsules, old collection boxes and a nativity scene with figures heads ‘taken clean off’ [Read More]

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s had promised to raise the minimum wage to $20 per hour (£10.15) and to raise taxes on the wealthiest Kiwis. [Read More]

Plans to prioritise hard-hit south Auckland in New Zealand’s vaccination rollout have been welcomed by experts – though cricketers hoping to head for the UK will have to wait for clarity. [Read More]

Restrictions in country’s biggest city to be imposed after single Covid case of unknown origin was recorded [Read More]

It's being rebuilt to look much like the original that was finished in 1904, only with modern-day improvements to make it warmer and safer, even to add extra much-needed bathrooms. [Read More]

A leader of the Maori Party has been ejected from the New Zealand parliament for not wearing a tie. [Read More]

New Zealand's government on Wednesday proposed that all children learn the history of Māori people and British colonization in a set course that teachers must follow, ending a system where schools choose how those subjects are taught. [Read More]

More electric vehicles, renewable energy and forests are among the steps recommended to help meet Paris accords [Read More]

New Zealand on Monday confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in the community in months in a 56-year-old woman, but said close contacts of the recently returned traveller had so far tested negative. [Read More]

Economic growth will recover more rapidly while budget deficits and net debt will be lower than expected, New Zealand's Finance Minister Grant Robertson said. [Read More]

Almost half of New Zealand's newly sworn-in Parliament are women and 11% are openly LGBTQ. Both New Zealand's Indigenous Māori and people with Pacific Island heritage are represented at a slightly higher rate than in the general population.New Zealand's Parliament is now the best in the world for LGBTQ representation.It also has the highest rate of female MPs in the OECD, alongside Mexico. [Read More]

New Zealand has voted the kakapo its Bird of the Year. It was a tough competition and only a complex election system allowed the big flightless parrot to triumph over its closest rival, the Antipodean albatross. [Read More]

New Zealand appointed its first Indigenous female foreign minister Monday to represent what's shaping up to be one of the most diverse parliaments in the world. [Read More]

Jacinda Ardern has won a second term as New Zealand's Prime Minister after her success at handling the country's coronavirus outbreak helped secure a landslide victory. [Read More]

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is facing re-election, called the country’s reopening a validation of its “go hard, go early” response. [Read More]

Face masks are no longer mandatory on public transport in most of New Zealand as Covid-19 cases continue to drop. [Read More]

Australian terrorist did not oppose the unprecedented sentence, which comes after three days of emotional victim impact statements [Read More]

A court in New Zealand has heard for the first time an official account of how a terrorist who murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch planned and executed the attacks – and his intentions to burn down both places of worship and attack a third. [Read More]

Ecostore has issued a permanent ‘’recall’’ on its containers to make a point about the country’s lack of plastic recycling facilities – but not everyone is impressed. [Read More]

New Zealand has marked an enviable milestone -- more than 100 days since its last coronavirus case was acquired locally from an unknown source. [Read More]

The secrets to New Zealand’s success at eliminating coronavirus has been revealed by university researchers, who have found compliance with basic hygiene practices and trust in authorities was at nearly 100%. [Read More]

New Zealand is now very close to its elimination target. But there is still a 5% chance of undetected cases. [Read More]

Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century, a Newshub-Reid Research poll showed on Monday, thanks to her COVID-19 response that made the country among the most successful in curbing the spread of the disease. [Read More]