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The news that will matter in 2022

Interview: Nicola Willis on National's reset

Rapid Covid tests are here, but you can’t bring them home

Orange summer for most, Northland remains red

Interview: The Green leaders on 2022

NZ’s next generation to be smoke-free

The other leader of the opposition

Strengthening New Zealand's democracy

National’s new guard

Interview: Jacinda Ardern on 2022

Welcome to your new normal

Auckland eyes new climate levy

Chris Luxon’s plan for the National party

A red and orange summer

Global travel restrictions as Omicron variant emerges

Who will be the next National leader?

Border to reopen to vaccinated travellers from January

Europe’s Covid wave has lessons for NZ

Goodbye alert levels, hello traffic light

Investigating the high cost of building supplies

The race to boost Māori vaccination rates

Auckland to open by Christmas as elimination ends

Your vaccine pass is ready

Boosters from end of November

Did Cop26 do enough?

NZ’s disinformation surge

The plan to reopen Auckland's schools

Auckland is different today

China's ticking time bomb

The cost of rapid population growth

'Our last, best hope' at Cop26

Government considers travel slots to leave Auckland

An unprecedented boom in housing consents

Auckland’s restrictions could be eased next week

NZ to halve emissions by 2030

MIQ stays shortened from next month

Why everybody hates Three Waters

The case against Facebook

Saving the New Zealand summer

The future of Covid-19 restrictions

Schools to reopen in level three

The mastermind behind Super Saturday

Ongoing mysteries of the delta outbreak

Australia loosens Covid-19 restrictions

NZ hospitals brace for delta wave

A strategy to cut NZ's emissions

The cost of the government's good books

When can Auckland schools finally reopen?

Business crunch as lockdown persists

The big week

Reserve Bank hikes borrowing costs, warns of more to come

The summer of the vaccine certificate

NZ's Covid-19 elimination strategy ends

Waikato locks down as Auckland decision looms

Tide turns on three waters plan

National releases its pandemic plan

Two big changes for landlords and tenants

Self-isolation trial to start next month

Buy now, pay forever?

Our vaccinated future

James Shaw on the road to Glasgow

A stronger anti-terror law is coming fast

'A calculated risk' as restrictions eased

The path to 90% vaccination

NZ’s weapon against vaccine misinformation

Trees worth more than cows as carbon price soars

Pressure on Collins mounts

Business subsidies extended in Auckland for longest lockdown

Mystery cases key as cabinet reviews Auckland lockdown

Extra doses arrive as vaccine programme breaks records

What delta means for reopening plans

NZ to have vaccine passport by Christmas

How house prices are dividing the country

The story of the Auckland terrorist

Covid-19 cases soar in hospitals

Signs of slowing in the housing market

Stories you may have missed during lockdown

Possible vaccine slowdown as PM seeks more doses

Stricter level four considered as cases spread in lockdown

South Island looks to break away from lockdown

Comparing NZ's vaccine rollout to the world

Australia abandons the elimination strategy

How delta spread through Auckland

NZ is preparing for a longer lockdown

Decision day on whether to extend lockdown

100 cases could exist as delta cluster spreads

What NZ needs to know about the delta cases

Scenes of desperation as Afghanistan collapses

Skegg on life after the border reopens

What slow border opening will look like

Review finds farm environment software borked

Eight key points of Skegg report on reopening

The devastating new climate report

National's divisions revealed at conference

Covid in Australia worse every day

National pushes new Covid visa for migrants

What the new lending restrictions mean

Seasonal workforce to swell this summer

Poll confirms steady rise for Act and David Seymour

Supermarket duopoly laid bare, faces forced competition

Vaccine rollout enters new phase

Nitrates in the water, and the risks

'Government neglect' blamed for poverty increase

International recognition for PM Fiame Mata'afa

Christchurch stadium design downsized amid cost blowout

Stocktake of the vaccine rollout

"Freedom Day" in England, and the consequences

NZ throws in with Five Eyes, alleging Chinese hacking

West Coast bears brunt in season of flooding

Three waters bid gets tepid response

OCR unchanged, but ground shifts under interest rates

Take RSV seriously, warn sufferers

Controversy over funding for gang-run drug programme

NSW outbreak speeds up, NZers stranded

Two polls, two different stories

What will Janssen jab mean for rollout?

Early interest rate move tipped by banks

Immigration, labour, and the halal butcher shortage

Bubble starts to reopen, testing complacency fears

Jackson announces consultation on He Puapua, UNDRIP

Mahuta vs the mayors on water reforms

Long process looms for RMA reform 

Court rules Sāmoan parliament must sit

Wellington escapes cases so far, whole bubble paused

Australia's outbreak and the bubble 

Wellington waits nervously amid move to level two 

Covid positive person spent weekend in Wellington

Despite more money, mental health facilities still in crisis

How adoption laws could change 

Interest rate hike tipped after GDP figures

Damien O'Connor's major trade mission

Rapid house price inflation continues

An apology decades in the making

Emissions levy or new tax by stealth?

Pay talks set to resume after nurse strike

Nick Smith returns to parliament for one last time

Global internet outage sparks fear of cyberattack

Nurses use leverage in strike vote 

Cleaning up the Canterbury floods 

Advice to shape water reforms released 

Smith resignation saga gets stranger

Nick Smith retiring amid staffer altercation allegation

Drought broken as flooding smashes Canterbury 

Mystery surrounds resignation of two MPs

It could happen again

Bite taken from emergency dental funding promise 

Service highlighted by Dame Cindy Kiro

Sāmoan politics plunged back into crisis 

Ten key reads on the budget 

Government keeps expectations low ahead of budget 

Hospitals hit by hack attack

Immigration speech signals big cuts to numbers 

Expectations of a major immigration speech 

Fears of mid-year vaccine shortage 

Pandemic could have been prevented, international panel finds 

Unions win concessions on public servant pay 

Bystanders praised after Dunedin stabbing attack 

Scottish independence moves a step closer 

Health system stretched to capacity 

Shock and anger at public sector pay freeze

Sāmoa heading back to the polls

Do Cook Islanders want the bubble?

How serious are trans-Tasman bubble wobbles? 

NZers facing hard road to get out of India 

Massive NZ Rugby buy-in going to Golden Point 

Continued failure on emergency motel housing 

Abuse in state care commission told to cut back 

India's Covid situation and the travel ban decision

Who inflation is hitting hardest 

Transmission Gully puts unrealistic PPPs on notice 

Mahuta moves away from Five Eyes in major speech 

Risks and benefits loom as trans-Tasman bubble opens

The complex politics of ending smoking

Calls made for return of Epidemic Response Committee 

Live animal export ban on the way 

Parties under pressure over undeclared donations 

Change looms in Samoa after knife-edge election

Four key questions for the climate strikers 

Much more data coming on vaccine rollout 

How the trans-Tasman bubble will work 

Trans-Tasman bubble to dominate the day

Light rail loops back to starting station 

Climate Change Commission feedback starts coming in

Will government be responsible for rising rents?

Timber supply shortage raises house building fears 

Still plenty to contest in health system reforms 

Campaign against speaker Mallard gains momentum

What effect will big housing policy changes have?

Government's day to confront housing crisis 

Tourism and the travel bubbles

Scientists back central government fluoride takeover 

Further America's Cup funding already signalled

Accusations fly over trans-Tasman bubble

Pressure on Collins after yet another poor poll

Muslim community to privately mark attack anniversary

Jacinda Ardern already knows if Auckland's moving to level one

How the Covid vaccine will be rolled out 

Is a consensus on cannabis law reform finally emerging? 

Going big on the Pfizer vaccine 

Assessing the latest lockdown

Will lockdown lift this weekend? 

White gold flowing as dairy prices jump sharply

Pharmac review unlikely to give patient advocates what they want

Self-isolation system under heavy scrutiny 

How did we end up back in lockdown? 

Reserve Bank put in bind by Robertson move 

Corrections minister picks fight with activist groups 

New cases around Papatoetoe cluster, alert not yet changing 

Short sharp alert level rise done in a week

Jabs galore as vaccine rollout gets underway 

Wild Wellington Council meeting sparks controversy 

Why the lockdown is being lifted

Morrison responds to Ardern serve over accused terrorist

How the latest Covid-19 outbreak is being felt 

Auckland back to level three, rest of NZ level two 

Will Queenstown survive the current struggles? 

Effects of RMA reform still years away 

Nurse overwork concerns at managed isolation hotels 

Air New Zealand's Saudi war shame

Australia's tough week with fires, lockdowns 

Economic picture positive but patchy

Māori wards gather momentum 

School year beginning with added challenges

Reaction to big changes required by first emissions report

Nervous wait for Northland and Auckland 

Tourism suffers in shadow of Covid-19

Collins outlines the plan forward for National

What happens next after Northland Covid-19 case 

High alert as woman in Northland tests Covid-positive

Summer news stories you might have missed