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The closure of a key highway into the Coromandel Peninsula has come as a welcome boost to businesses in another Waikato town. Read more Video, Audio

The government has relaunched its Three Waters policy as affordable water reforms.

The policy abandons plans to establish four mega-water entities in favour of 10.

Like the original plan, the 10… Read more Video, Audio

The coaching line-up for the world champion Black Ferns has been finalised - and there's not a woman in sight.

In February sevens maestro Allan Bunting was named the new head coach of the side -… Read more Video, Audio

The government's unveiled take two of its controversial three water's policy that will determine how the country's freshwater, stormwater, and wastewater infrastructure will be controlled.

It's got a… Read more Video, Audio

A passenger on the ferry involved in a collision with a motor boat between Russell and Paihia today described the boat as a "massive launch" coming full throttle straight towards the side of ferry… Read more Video, Audio

A Dunedin ice cream shop has had to stop making its custom waffle cones because it cannot get enough eggs.

Patti's and Cream churns through hundreds of eggs a week, making the cones and speciality… Read more Video, Audio

There are warnings that the impact of the teacher shortage could be exacerbated, as relief teachers leave the profession.

Ministry of Education figures reveal there are 3000 fewer relief teachers… Read more Video, Audio

Wellington Zoo is now home to a pair of snow leopard sisters. Asha and Manju have come from Melbourne Zoo and are the only snow leopards in New Zealand.

Our visual journalist Samuel Rillstone went to… Read more Video, Audio

Fancy a change of pace and cheaper housing? A tiny Australian outback desert town is offering grants of more than $20,000 to anyone who builds a house there and moves in.

Quilpie is about 1000km west… Read more Video, Audio

Groundwater sites, failing drinking water standards, lakes reaching breaking point and more nitrates entering rivers, not to mention climate change.

New Zealand's freshwater environment is in a bad… Read more Audio

Kiwifruit orchards in the Bay of Plenty town of Katikati have been left badly damaged, after a tornado ripped through on Tuesday.

One family were sheltering inside as the ferocious storm took out… Read more Video, Audio

The family of a man with an intellectual disability say he has been neglected while waiting six months in hospital for a hip operation, and they fear he may even die there.

Pukekohe man Arthur Brown… Read more Video, Audio