A passenger who flew from Auckland to Queenstown and was taken straight from the plane to hospital with "mild flu-like symptoms" has returned a negative Covid test.
WARNING: Graphic content. A man who beat his friend to death with a cricket bat made “quite extraordinary” changes to his story to fit the evidence, the Crown says.
Nearly 700 university staff, including more than 40 at Canterbury University, are losing or leaving their jobs because of the financial hole caused by falling foreign enrolments.
Wanaka couple Roy Rose and Leanne Taylor-Rose no longer have active cases of Covid-19, but that does not mean the disease has released them from its clutches.