New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today offered her sympathy to the family of the late Janesh Prasad in Auckland, New Zealand.

One person is dead and two injured after a tornado ripped through a Ports of Auckland shipping container yard in south Auckland this morning.

Parts of south Auckland have been hit by a violent tornado uprooting trees, severely damaging homes and bringing power lines down.

Today, one man will get to hold his 18-month-old son, whom he has not seen since he was four days old.

The producer of a movie about the Christchurch terror attacks in New Zealand has pulled out of the project after mounting criticism over the film.

There were four passengers in total, with the other person sustaining moderate injuries.

It was announced yesterday that a film with the working title ‘They Are Us’ would be made, focusing on the prime minister’s response to the 2019 attacks which killed 51 people.

Two people battling COVID-19 have been transferred from quarantine to Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital.

The possible gunshots were reported at about 11am on Milson Line north of the city in New Zealand.

New Zealand stocks of the COVID-19 vaccine are running low, and overachieving health boards have been instructed to slow down the rate they are injecting people.

About 30,000 nurses in New Zealand walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a nationwide eight-hour strike after negotiations with the government for better pay and working conditions failed.

A COVID-19 patient in MIQ has been moved to Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital.