Those outside Auckland and Northland are waking up to slightly more freedom.
He was eventually loaded into a trailer and driven to an undisclosed location.
Sophie Pascoe's latest triumph was her 10th career Paraympics gold and 18th medal overall.
The Tokyo gold medallist is part of a jam-packed day of Kiwi action at the Paralympic Games.
Fourteen hours of record rainfall forced some residents to evacuate.
The National Party leader left Auckland to attend Parliament in-person despite the nationwide lockdown.
Two others have been hospitalised after the collision in Auckland's Henderson.
He wants to see numbers continue to decline, but knows they will "bounce around a bit".
Muriwai's Glenn Gowthorpe and Darrell Watt were out in Kumeū and were a crucial part of the rescue operations.
Yvonne Goodman said her "perfectionist" granndaughter calls her after every race.
The clean-up operation in a rural West Auckland community has begun after it was hit hard on Tuesday by flooding.
NZTE admits it has not gone about the process in the right way.
Dr Ashley Bloomfield gave the latest figures during Wednesday's Covid-19 briefing alongside Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins.
Covid-19 modeller Shaun Hendy says there will continue to be cases as household contacts contract the virus.
One Taemaro whānau has been living in a shed without power since the pandemic began.
They've been named out of an “abundance of caution”, and people don't need to get additional tests.
The new rules still have teething problems, however.
Restrictions could be eased as early as mid-October as large numbers of people continue to get vaccinated.
Nikita Howarth, Jesse Reynolds, Sophie Pascoe and Tupou Neiufi were all back in the pool on day eight.
“It will create a more level playing field," the Covid-19 Response Minister says.
One person flew out to Wellington while another flew to Dunedin.
The pair told police at the Mercer Checkpoint they wanted to head to Hamilton to buy face masks.
The man behaved erratically after being arrested, police say.
Dr Ashley Bloomfield said on Wednesday that Covid numbers are expected to continue to decline.
The alpaca that was swept kilometres down the Henderson Valley has been rescued.
The island nation has recorded nearly 500 deaths since April - the youngest a six-month-old baby.
National is proposing a system where Government pays 50 per cent of the rent for businesses that lose over 40 per cent of revenue.
The function hadn't been used since the start of Alert Level 4.
No one was on board when it entered the water on Wednesday afternoon.
University of Auckland professor David Robb says shortages are expected to continue into Christmas.
The pop-up centre aimed to provide a more accessible approach to the vaccination process for students.
Earlier on Wednesday, Howarth was the first Kiwi swimmer in action in the heats.
The incident happened on August 29.
Pascoe won what was her fourth medal in Tokyo, just ahead of Hungary’s Zsofia Konkoly.
The Kiwi sprinter won her second medal in Tokyo.
