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Desert Road closed amid heavy snowfall File Image. SunLive. The Desert Road is now closed due to snow and ice. Waka Kotahi NZTA is advising that State Highway 1 is now shut between Rangipo and Waiouru. A detour is in place. “Please follow the detour and allow at least an extra 45 minutes travel time,” says a statement on Waka Kotahi’s website. UPDATE 10:30AM, TUE 29 JUN SH4 National Park to Tohunga Junction (Ohakune) is now OPEN, but SH1 Desert Rd remains CLOSED with a detour via SH4 National Park. Please drive to the winter conditions on the detour route by slowing down and allowing ...

Contract awarded for $550k playground construction The current Omokoroa Domain playground. Image: SunLive. '); } else { // } Western Bay of Plenty District Council has awarded the construction contract for the upgrade of the Omokoroa playground with an expected total cost of just over half a million dollars. The Council have confirmed Downer have been awarded the contract for the upgrade and the construction component of the $1.04 million project is expected to total approximately $550,000. Council’s Reserves and Facilities projects and assets manager, Scott Par...

Covid-19: Wellington returning to alert level 1 Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield. Image: RNZ. '); } else { // } Wellington is moving back to alert level 1 and the Trans-Tasman travel bubble pause will be lifted for some parts of Australia from Sunday night. The capital and its wider region will leave alert level 2 from 11.59pm tonight. Cabinet has met this morning to determine whether Covid-19 levels can change in the Wellington region, and to re-assess the pause on the trans-Tasman travel bubble. Wellingt...

Returnees MIQ stay extended after positive tests Image: Alexia Russell/RNZ. '); } else { // } A number of people in an Auckland managed isolation facility have had their stay extended after two people tested positive for Covid-19. The people staying at the Novotel Auckland Airport will remain in the facility until the genome sequencing results of two positive day 12 Covid-19 cases in are available, says a statement from the Ministry of Health. The two cases arrived on June 14, one from Moscow and one from Dubai. “It is standard protocol that any cases detected a...