Residents have been evacuated as a precaution while the incident unfolds.

Two people have been critically injured in the multi-car crash.

A second student at Mt Albert Grammar has been confirmed as having had Covid-19.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash at 6.40pm.

The house in Te Aro was too badly damaged to be saved.

Fenz will be at the building overnight and ask bystanders and motorists to avoid the area.

The body was discovered on the Kopu-Hikuai Road (SH25A) at about 7.30pm Wednesday.

The man was arrested after allegedly pulling a weapon out on police, believed to be a gun.

Today's tobacco bust is Customs' largest ever at the border in a single shipment.

'A speaker over the in-room PA system said that a guest had tested positive for Covid-19.'

Emergency services were called to the scene at 5pm.

A vehicle collided with a parked car around 7pm.

Emergency services are at the scene.

Police were called to the scene at 7.15pm.

Rāhui placed on the mountain for five days out of respect for the families of the pair.

People at house known to each other, say police.

Australian survivors plan to sue to cruise line for failing to warn them of the danger.

Emergency services were called to the crash at 8pm Wednesday.

Decision on whether supermarkets would open over Easter to be made tomorrow.

The new cases brings the total since the pandemic began to 589.

He survived nearly three days on meat from a deer he'd shot earlier, and limpets and paua.

The Covid-19 lockdown of New Zealand started at 11:59pm 25 March 2020. This is what it was like on the first morning.

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

The vehicle caught fire shortly after the crash in Karapiro.

The country's alert level is still at two, Director-General of Health says.

Massey Uni students told to prepare to study from home for an "extended period".

'I'm feeling 85 per cent normal' says quarantined businessman Neil McAra.

The conscience vote on the polarising legislation passed its final reading 68-51.

There are currently 20 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, as of Wednesday.

School closures are currently not on the horizon.