Many parents are still at home and/or afraid to send their children back to centres.

Hundreds of sailors are stranded in New Zealand and other Pacific nations due to Covid-19.

Attendance shows south-to-north pattern: 90 per cent in deep south, 75 per cent in north.

Flight attendant speaks out over unsubstantiated sex act claims he says ruined his life.

It's the first case of listeria in the Cook Islands for more than a decade, officials say.

As the world deals with the pandemic, a few have managed to escape it so far.

The New Zealander charged after a massive drug bust in Australia has been named.

Kiwi arrested after yacht intercepted off NSW coast laden with methamphetamine.

Five more people in French Polynesia have tested positive for Covid-19.

Fine few days ahead before stormy weather ushers in the long weekend.

A funeral director has revealed just how hard their job is during the Covid 19 lockdown.

Fifteen of around 29 who broke out of Tanumalala prison last night are still at large.

All police officers have been told to report for duty after prison breakout.

A country-by-country look at the cases and restrictions in the Pacific.

Samoa has its first suspected Covid-19 case - a person who travelled there from Auckland.

Tourist landed in Christchurch yesterday with no self-isolation plan.

The trip was scheduled for just over a week in late March.

Today in Northland, pacific cultures are being celebrated at a Pasifika festival

How Tonga went from causing one of the biggest upsets in history to being expelled.

Counties Manukau DHB has raised the threshold for breast cancer treatment.

The battle for Flat Bush has begun.

Strong winds, swells as high as four metres, and school closures amid heavy rains.

Some eight others, including a baby perished in the month-long ordeal.

His mum was pulled aside and told she had to cut his hair, "cultural or not".

The Government's pushing back at claims NZ exported measles to the Pacific Islands.