From RNZ Opinion is split in New Plymouth over whether the Taranaki city should be in Covid-19 alert level 3 along with Auckland.Members of a Papatoetoe family infected with the UK variant of the virus travelled to Taranaki…
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Products from LSG Sky Chefs pulled from supermarket shelves
LSG Sky Chefs, the company at the centre of the community cases that sparked Auckland’s lockdown, supplied products to supermarkets and rail services.Those products have now been withdrawn from supermarket shelves.The New Zealand…
Covid-19 Coronavirus: Port Waikato 'cut off' after shock checkpoint shift
A Waikato seaside community is today cut off from essential services and supplies after a checkpoint was unexpectedly shifted yesterday.Residents at Port Waikato face a challenging 90-minute drive on a single-lane gravel road with…
Pair jailed for vicious bashing that split man's kidney and spattered walls with blood
A Dunedin man who was beaten so viciously his kidney was split and his blood was sprayed across the walls says he feels lucky he is not dead.Mark*, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was just about to start a job in Central…
Auckland students fly out to Otago despite lockdown
About 650 University of Otago first-year students from Auckland are filtering into Dunedin this week, allowed to travel outside of Auckland under alert level 3 because they are relocating or returning to a place of residence.They…
New Zealand woman identified as Isis terrorist captured at Syria border with two children
A New Zealand woman identified as an international terrorist and her two children are expected to be deported from Turkey, after being caught trying to leave Syria.The Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence says the 26-year-old…
Kaipara mayor Dr Jason Smith slams central government after checkpoint change
Kaipara mayor Dr Jason Smith believes Northlanders are being ignored by central government after yesterday’s border checkpoints were reverted to their locations from last year. Smith, also the Northland Mayoral Forum chairman, said…
Herald morning quiz: February 16
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Weather: Northland, Auckland in for more wet weather after soggy start to the week
It’s been a wet, grey and humid start to lockdown for Aucklanders and there is more rain on the cards for the region today. Northland, which was lashed with wild weather that closed schools, damaged powerlines and turned an Air…
Covid 19 coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern 'heartened' so far; Papatoetoe High School tests due today
VIRUS LATEST* Covid-19: NZ’s best and worst-case scenarios * Supermarkets urge shoppers to be kind to staff after ‘very distressing racial abuse’ * Audrey Young: New Covid case highlights weak link in the system – the private…