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Ben Leahy is a reporter for the New Zealand Herald
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Air NZ crew member and nine Motueka cases will soon find out if they have Omicron.
Urgent call for more support as even those with only mild symptoms can develop long Covid.
Officials are keeping a close on eye on Omicron cases at the border.
Emergency teams scoured the rocks below the road in Amodeo Bay.
How to achieve work-life balance and pay less for your home.
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The man has been taken to hospital in a stable condition.
Skyrocketing house prices have seen agents line their pockets in 2021.
Buyers at an Auckland development are being asked to pay 25 per cent more for new builds.
Aucklanders will be rushing out of the city this week for the first time in four months.
The valuation process has hit snags estimating land and cross lease values.
Housing's popularity as an investment and falling interest rates have pushed prices higher
Aucklanders are celebrating their freedoms with community cricket and cafe breakfasts.
The trouble included a serious assault on K-Road that left a person in hospital.
The man is in hospital in a critical condition.
It's the biggest property boom since the 2000s.
There are now 79 people in hospital, including nine in intensive care.
Eighty-six people are in hospital and nine are in intensive care.
Local worker saw one man with a machete and another with a knife in street standoff.
Health teams are still trying to work out if the student was infectious while at school.
Council blames Covid complexities for delaying new CV release.
"I'm struggling at work because this is on my mind, I'm waking up at 4.30am": owner
New council valuations are due out in Auckland and Wellington.
Auckland man spent decades nurturing and sculpting the trees into pieces of art.
Jacinda Ardern is back in Auckland to meet members of the business community.
The weeks in lockdown has left Aucklanders with no chance of a trim, colouring or style.
Can landlords just raise the rent by any amount they wish, tenant asks.
Vaccine pass teething problems threatening to hamper early roll out.
Life is about to get easier for the vaccinated and harder for the unvaxxed.
New locations have also been announced in Hamilton and Whangārei.
Three crews found the home 'well involved' in fire when they arrived.
Iconic store and weekend food market closing after 24 years bringing France to Parnell.
But high school lobby says only a 'tiny amount' of secondary teachers unvaxxed.
First-home buyers accuse property traders of driving up house prices.
A helicopter has joined the search after person last seen entering water New Plymouth.
One student deemed close contact, while health teams dismiss concerns over mask use.
Daughter says her dad died painfully at home after being told his symptoms were normal.
PM says Aucklanders can leave for summer, but Govt still working out exactly how.
Police have rushed to a Mangere East home where a person was attacked.
The risk to students has been deemed low by public health teams.
A Māori health provider wants contact details for unvaxxed Māori .
There have now been 17 community cases in the region with eight still active.
Health teams urging anyone with cold or flu symptoms to get tested.