Jordan Bond

Aucklanders have returned to the central city for the first time in months - but not in the numbers many expected.

The city returned to Alert Level One level one for the first time in eight weeks… Audio

After 57 days under tight Covid-19 restrictions Aucklanders are getting used to life back at Alert Level 1.

The last people from the Auckland outbreak have recovered from the virus but the source of… Audio

Auckland is back at Alert Level 1 after weeks of restrictions due to an outbreak of Covid-19.

Reporter Jordan Bond is at Britomart to see how busy things are.

He speaks to Susie Ferguson. Audio

Two of the men charged with historical indecent assault linked to the Auckland boys school Dilworth case can now be named.

Alister Grant Harlow, who's 60, pleaded not guilty to one count of indecent… Audio

With just one new case in two weeks, New Zealand's only cluster of Covid-19 cases looks to have been stamped out.

Its origin remains unknown but Alert Level 1 beckons for Auckland.

Health and data… Audio

An Auckland woman living near the Harbour Bridge is angry and shocked people were never told neighbouring land was contaminated with heavy metals from the bridge.

RNZ revealed the transport agency… Audio

Thousands of Aucklanders face a crawl into work this morning, as rush hour traffic gets backed up by a Harbour Bridge running at 50 percent capacity.

Four of the bridge's eight lanes could be closed… Audio

CCTV footage shows a man who was found with a gunshot wound this morning in central Auckland had earlier been dropped off by a car.

The man is now in hospital in a stable condition.

RNZ's reporter… Audio

Health authorities are waiting on test results from those who were at the same Les Mills classes as a health worker, who had the virus.

The Ministry of Health has found up to 94 possible close… Audio

A jury has heard the New Zealand president of the Comancheros motorcycle gang suspected his phone was bugged, and fretted about being arrested eight months before a major police bust.

Five people… Audio

The police bugged cellphones belonging to members and associates of the Comancheros gang, listening live to calls for nearly a year before raiding the bikies in a major bust.

Five people, including… Audio

A jury has heard that one of the men involved in the Comancheros trial was just metres away from finalising a million dollar drug deal before it fell through for unknown reasons.

It's the second day… Audio

Auckland's community covid testing blitz is underway, after public health officials become concerned about a drop in testing numbers.

The government wants to test 70,000 people by next Wednesday -… Audio

Auckland's Mayor has been warned businesses teetering on the edge of collapse during the first lockdown may go to the wall this time around.

The council's chief economist is expecting around 250 jobs… Audio

Yesterday there were huge queues at Covid-19 testing stations around Auckland.

Reporter Jordan Bond is at a new pop-up testing centre at Eden Park.

He speaks to Kim Hill. Audio

Aucklanders have once again mobbed testing clinics across the city - more of which have popped up to cope with the demand.

Traffic snaked for hundreds of metres outside some centres, where people who… Video, Audio

The demand for testing remains high in the Auckland region.

Māni Dunlop.spoke to RNZ reporter, Jordan Bond, who visited a pop-up testing centre in Warkworth, about the wait to get a swab. 
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Queues have been forming at Auckland Covid-19 testing centres, but it's a different story at one just south of the city's northern boundary.

Jordan Bond is at the Wellsford testing centre.

He speaks… Audio