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A police officer is killed and four other people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack during a patrol in Nelson, New Zealand. A 32-year-old suspect is arrested.
2025-01-1

New Zealand Police presume that two Americans and a Canadian are dead after evidence suggests they fell while attempting to summit Mount Cook (Aoraki), suspending search operations.
2024-12-6

The draw for next year's FIFA Women's World Cup, to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, is held at the Aotea Centre in Auckland.
2022-10-22

Medsafe provisionally approves the use of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine in New Zealand with certain conditions.
2021-02-3

Queensland reopens its borders to travellers from New Zealand after 28 days without any community transmission cases.
2020-12-12

Malaysia states that it will extradite a junior military official who returned home after being charged with sexual assault at its diplomatic mission in New Zealand.
2014-07-1

The first same-sex marriages take place in New Zealand, following the passage of the Marriage Equality Bill in April.
2013-08-19

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes under Cook Strait in New Zealand, causing moderate damage in the capital city Wellington.
2013-07-21

The south ridge of Aoraki - Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain, is renamed Hillary Ridge after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to conquer Mount Everest.
2011-08-10

An elderly man dies following aftershocks to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, with additional buildings to be demolished.
2011-06-14