Mike Sanford

Cabinet has agreed to a change in Covid-19 alert levels for both Auckland, the centre of the current Covid-19 outbreak, and the rest of New Zealand this week. The alert levels were reviewed by Cabinet today, and no new cases of Covid-19 were reported in New Zealand. Here’s what you need to know abou

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is announcing whether alert levels will change after Cabinet reviewed them today, and is joined by Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield. Watch the announcement by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield from around 1pm:

New Zealand driver Brendon Hartley has won his second Le Mans 24 hour title after helping Toyota to their third straight win in the French classic. Hartley, Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi guided their Toyota Hybrid number eight car home in the last Le Mans before the start of a new Hypercar era

Cameron McIntosh is the new Southland District Council chief executive. Southland District Mayor Gary Tong said he was extremely pleased to announce Mr McIntosh’s appointment. “Cameron stood out because of his knowledge of local government, his commitment to people, including our staff and our commu

Fonterra has posted a profit of $659 million as restructuring, improved sales and margins helped it recover from the previous year’s massive loss. The profit to the end of July compared with a $605m loss the year before, as the co-operative wrote down the value of assets and took other hits worth $8

The Gore District Council’s resource consent applications to build a cable-stay bridge across the Mataura River, near the existing Gore traffic bridge, has attracted 46 submissions. There are: 26 in opposition 17 in support 2 neutral 1 in support of the concept but opposing the site The resource con

Weird History presents Timeline 1986 – we’re going back to ’86, prime 80s, when we would see terrible tragedies such as the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion and Chernobyl meltdown. But it wouldn’t be all bad news, 1986 would also see such highlights as the inception of Pixar, Clint Eastwood became

Three lucky Lotto players from Auckland, Hawera and Queenstown will be celebrating in style after each winning $333,333 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Smart Superette in Auckland, Pak N Save Hawera in Hawera and Night n Day Church Street in Q