There are 15,161 new community cases of Covid-19 today, with 618 people in hospital. Video / NZ Herald

Chris Luxon delivers State of the Nation address from Auckland. Video / National Party NZ Facebook

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TikTok videos show students playing a blackout game. Video / TikTok

Firefighters and two helicopters are battling a serious bush fire threatening three or four homes on Auckland's North Shore. Video / Supplied

March 5 2022 There were 18,833 community cases of Covid-19 in the community today. Five more people have died with Covid-19, bringing NZ's toll since the pandemic began to 68.

Wellington bus driver delights passersby while playing saxophone during his break. Video / James Stonley

A man has died at an incident at Bayswater Marina in Auckland. Video / Cameron Pitney

Auckland grandmother, Pearl Schomburg, becomes first NZer to legally use dried cannabis flower to relieve her pain. Video / Michael Craig

02 March 2022. Violent scenes erupted outside Parliament as police moved in to clear the occupation that has been disrupting the capital for over three weeks. Video / NZ Herald

4 March 2022 There are 22,535 new Covid-19 cases today and a further five deaths have been reported. There are now 67 people who have died with Covid since the outbreak started in 2020.

March 4th, 2022: Covid 19 Wellington protest - Wainuiōmata Marae staff pushed, threatened by protesters. Video / NZ Herald

It was a nervous first flight for Max Key in former Prime Minister Sir John Key's helicopter. Video / Max Key via Instagram

Firefighter involvement in protest slammed, Wellingtonians pitch in for clean-up and Russian conflict intensifies in Ukraine in the latest New Zealand Herald Headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Jacinda Ardern inspects damage at Parliament as the work to restore it begins. Video / Mike Scott

Police at the scene in Tikipunga where an alleged gunman has fled on foot. Video / Jayden Jameson

Protesters started a fire on Parliament grounds and threw bricks and other objects as police moved in on the occupation site in March. Video / Michael Neilson

March 3 2022 PM Jacinda Ardern said yesterday's violence on Parliament grounds was a sight she never expected to see and the area today was something akin to a "rubbish dump".

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March 3 2022 There are 23,183 new community cases of Covid-19, director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield announced.

New video shows the protesters adding to and then spreading the fire to other tents across the front lawn at Parliament. Video / Gerard Otto via facebook / Independent View via Facebook / Chantelle Baker via Facebook

Further arrests have been made outside Wellington Railway Station Thursday morning. Video / Mike Scott

Protest ends in fury & flames, RATs available to more people from today and nearly 50 Kiwis arrested in online child sex abuse operation in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Residents in the Kate Sheppard Apartments applauded police as they returned home once the protesters were moved on. Video / Kieran McAnulty via Twitter

The car was filmed driving around wildly between protesters and cops, coming heartstoppingly close to hitting the police line. Video / Emily Simpson via Twitter

Police storm occupation site - tents on fire, slide torched as Parliament lawn cleared. Video / NZ Herald

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This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the outbreak to 142,321, with 123,836 of these still currently active. Video / NZ Herald

2 March 2022 Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has addressed the "misinformation and conspiracy theories" among protesters as NZ hit a record 22,152 new community cases of Covid-19 today.