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The New Zealand Māori Council selects Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō as the new Queen following the death of her father King Tūheitia in August.
2024-09-4

New Zealand reports a record 1,929 new community transmitted COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
2022-02-17

New Zealand moves COVID-19 traffic light settings for Auckland from red to orange, allowing bars, restaurants and cafes that enforce the vaccine pass requirement to remove crowd size limits and requirements to sit down, despite fears of community transmission of the Omicron variant.
2021-12-31

New Zealand reports a record 94 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2021-10-19

New Zealand reports its first death from the Lineage B.1.617.2 Delta variant and its first COVID-19-related death since February in a woman in her 90s with underlying health conditions who died in the North Shore Hospital in Takapuna.
2021-09-4

The Whakaari - White Island volcano in the Bay of Plenty off New Zealand's North Island erupts.
2013-08-20

Voters in New Zealand go to the polls for a general election and voting method referendum.
2011-11-26

At least 88 containers fall from the stricken cargo ship Rena into the Bay of Plenty off New Zealand's North Island, including one containing the
2011-10-13

Samoa announces plans to shift west of the international dateline from the east, putting it a day ahead to make trading with Australia and New Zealand easier.
2011-05-9

29 miners in a New Zealand mine are confirmed dead after a second explosion, following a first explosion on November 19 which trapped them.
2010-11-24