Stories by Ben Strang

A New Zealand darts player will become the first transgender woman to compete at the World Darts Federation World Darts Championship, to take place in England early next year. Audio

Roshan Mahanama pointed to New Zealand's long trade relationship with Sri Lanka, and called for support for the country in this critical time.

People with Covid-19 will soon be asked to quarantine at home, rather than being ushered to a managed isolation facility.

The Ministry of Health has hinted that it will look at alternative vaccines for people who react badly to the Pfizer shot.

Sources who have been working on the vaccine certificates say there are three possibilities for how they will be legally enforced.

The police hierarchy asked staff not to get vaccinated early in the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, unless they did it through the police's chosen provider.

Vaccine certificates are likely to be granted to people without a person needing any actual proof they've been vaccinated.

The Ministry of Health says it doesn't recognise vaccines a person has received overseas.

It is unlikely that people will be legally required to provide a vaccine passport to business owners in order to use their services.

There has been a 49 percent increase in injuries recorded as a result of firearms crime in Auckland city over the past year and a half, compared with the two years previous.

People are flouting contact tracing systems by signing with fake names and numbers, and new rules coming into effect at midnight are powerless to stop the practice.

Two staff members are among those who have breached Covid-19 infection prevention rules at quarantine facilities since the current community outbreak began.

The Covid-19 community outbreak is stretching the limits of the country's quarantine system, and the number of rooms available with suitable air filtration systems that can withhold the virus.

Wellington's Covid-19 cases are being allowed to exercise in an underground car park, prompting concern that MIQ workers are being put at unnecessary risk.

Declassified government documents show officials got a late call from the United States seeking co-operation when the splash down site of its Apollo 8 mission shifted into New Zealand-managed…

First person - RNZ reporter Ben Strang was on the streets before the latest lockdown when he was attacked, and writes that it feels like there is more animosity towards the government and media this…

The Transport Agency has spent more than $180,000 advertising the Clean Car Discount during July, the first month of the policy.

A leading Māori doctor is calling for the vaccination of children against Covid-19 to get underway, and is hopeful kids as young as five could get their vaccines by the end of the year.

The six month firearms buyback and amnesty was the second to take place since changes to gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

People in the tourism and infrastructure industries are hoping the government will soon change the way it assesses the risk travellers bring when they arrive in New Zealand.

Almost three-quarters of police support the general arming of officers, a new survey shows - the highest level in 10 years.

Converse has quietly removed any reference to the environmental impact of its global public art campaign from its website after being accused of greenwashing.

The police's $25.3m body armour replacement programme has been hit by major delays because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Sport and Recreation Minister Grant Robertson was deluged with emails about Laurel Hubbard's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games selection over the past few months.

Declassified government documents show officials were struggling to debunk TV1 footage of the Kaikōura lights UFO sightings in December 1978.