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Police can confirm one person has now died following a serious crash in Invercargill last week. The three-vehicle collision occurred at the intersection of Morton Street and Centre Street at about 3.50pm on Wednesday 17 June. The driver of one of the vehicles died yesterday in hospital. The police i

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield is providing an update on Covid-19 cases in the country. Yesterday, two more cases were confirmed, bringing the total of active cases to seven. The combined total of confirmed and probable cases was 1511. Watch the briefing live here around 1pm: A New

Police investigating the missing Harley Davidson motorbike belonging to the late Russel Blackford received a call from a member of the public on Saturday to advise the bike had been located. It had been found partly pushed into a river and the member of the public had retrieved it. Police are now ma

Auckland’s Covid-19 isolation facilities have reached capacity, with 4272 New Zealanders in managed isolation and almost 900 more expected to arrive in the country in the next two days. Minister Megan Woods and Air Commodore Digby Webb have held a media conference updating the latest developments in

There have been two new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today, both in isolation. The most recent case in the Southern district was reported on 18 April. Since then there have been no new cases in the district, making today the 64th consecutive day of no new cases in the Southern DHB regio

Police investigating the fatal shooting of a Police officer in Massey have charged a man with Murder. A 24-year-old man has been arrested and charged with multiple serious offences including Murder, Attempted Murder and Dangerous Driving Causing Injury, Commissioner of Police Andrew Costa, said. He

With the blessing of the family, we are now in a position to release the name of the Police officer who was fatally shot during an incident in Massey yesterday morning. He was Constable Matthew Dennis Hunt, aged 28 of Auckland. Constable Hunt started with Police as a member of Wing 312 on 30 October

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield is giving an update on Covid-19. Yesterday New Zealand recorded one new case of Covid-19, of a man in his 60s who is in quarantine after arriving from Pakistan, which brought the number of confirmed and probable cases to 1507. There were three three activ