One mother said it felt like in the current environment, her family was being silenced.
The fungus doesn't endanger healthy people, but can make people with weak immune systems suffer severe illness and die.
Co-governance has been a contentious topic recently, with those against it saying it impacts on democracy.
Three years on, 1News revisits how Kiwis faced up to the unprecedented lockdown.
The Kea Conservation Trust wants to hear about more sightings after two kea were spotted in the past two months.
"Within a blink of our eyes, the biggest part of my life was gone," she said.
Four passenger buses and a truck collided after a taxi carried out a "careless lane change".
The former director-general of health said the worst of the pandemic seemed to be over, but lockdowns could have future use.
An official counter-protest began at 11am this morning.
The Hurricanes Poua have left a wobbly season start in the dust, beating the Blues 29 to 24 in the Super Rugby Aupiki third and fourth play off.
Protesters began to gather at around 11am, with around 2000 eventually showing up to make their voices heard.
A person found a shoe with what is believed to be a human foot inside it on the beach about 8am this morning, police said.
"Tomorrow's Let Women Speak gathering in Wellington has been cancelled," a media statement released this afternoon said.
The man reportedly travelled on a bicycle and stole "a quantity of cash" from the store's till.
"I just dropped a litre of juice on her," she said.
Police confirmed a person struck by a vehicle in Ngāruawāhia earlier today has died.
Te Atatū MP Phil Twyford said the solution is managed retreat.
It comes amid Kiwi research to radically reshape how electric vehicles work, with a plan dubbed "power snacking".
The New Zealand hop industry has gone from strength to strength in recent years with 2023 promising more of the same.
Emergency services responded to the crash on Bollard Road, Tuakau at about 7pm, police said.
