Stories by Kate Newton

The man has never stood trial, but has been detained for 18 years because he is considered too dangerous to release.

Homeowners are dipping into their savings or cutting their insurance back in a bid to cope with steeply rising premiums.

Where premiums are up the most, where it's hardest to get quotes, and why it might be a sign of worse to come.

A Serious Fraud Office appeal against the acquittal of two men who handled donations to the New Zealand First Foundation has been thrown out.

The Prime Minister's office circulated 'talking points' on tobacco for his ministers that were completely at odds with official advice.

The NZ First minister, who took "soundings" from a tobacco executive, says he doesn't know or care about the rules.

While Auckland Council urges residents to 'be prepared' for the next big flood, it allows hundreds more homes to be built in places it expects to be hard hit by floods.

Some people who were wrongly denied the benefit based on redundancy payments, or never applied because of misleading advice, say they still have no answers after applying to have their cases reviewed.

A least a dozen non-disclosure agreements over sexual harassment and bullying complaints have been imposed by New Zealand universities in the last decade.

As chaos swirled, the tweets got darker - but which day was peak bleak?

People with exemption visas to travel to New Zealand have been prevented from boarding a Malaysia Airlines flight from Cambodia after airline staff refused to accept their paperwork.

Tens of thousands in donor's funds given to the New Zealand First Foundation were spent paying expenses, wages and bills for people closely associated with the New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

New Zealand First has once again opted not to name any donations from the mysterious foundation bankrolling the party on its electoral return.

The number of cars on the road immediately doubled the day that Covid-19 restrictions were eased to level 3, transport data shows.

The visualisations down to suburb level show most people are "behaving themselves" and staying home, data analysts say. Video

Global data collected by Google shows most New Zealanders are continuing to abide by level 4 restrictions, despite an increase in lockdown breaches and convictions.

Record low traffic and public transport data from the third week of lockdown shows New Zealanders are continuing to heed the message to stay home.

Covid-19 could be twice as deadly for Māori communities if the virus spreads in New Zealand - and the risk is even higher for older Māori and Pasifika, new research has found.

Patients are staying away from NZ hospitals during the pandemic - raising fears among doctors that lives could be lost through delayed treatment.

There could have been hundreds more cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand already if a lockdown had not gone ahead, new modelling shows.

It's the question on everyone's mind - so RNZ asked experts how and when the level 4 restrictions might be lifted.

It took a pandemic for Kate Newton's Auckland street to meet their neighbours. Now they're forging a new network over fences and through text messages.

A month ago Shaun Hendy realised the coronavirus was 'gonna be bad' and set up a team to model the spread. Here's how they are predicting what might happen.

New modelling shows the lockdown could buy us time, but cases of Covid-19 will still peak well beyond hospital capacity as soon as it ends.

Use RNZ's interactive globe to see where people testing positive for the coronavirus flew from.