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12:48 PM.It was a beautiful day in Te Whanganui-a-Tara yesterday -- and the small city beach at Oriental Bay was crowded with people seeking relief from the heat.

But masks and physical distancing were… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.St John Ambulance responded to 30 percent more mental health call outs for people under fourteen in 2021 than in 2020.

More mental health call outs occured across all age groups, a 36 percent… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

12:27 PM.Sport news for 1 February 2022 Audio

12:20 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

12:15 PM.Despite falling numbers of youth offenders, Māori are still disproportionately represented in the figures. 

It comes as a new report reveals the number of youth offenders has fallen by more than 60… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Government ministers are expected to discuss the future of border controls and the managed isolation system at today's Cabinet meeting.

While the settings have helped slow Covid-19 from entering the… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Midday news update for the February the first, 2022. 

New information on the scale of abuse in the Catholic church; Ministers contemplate the future of the border; and St John reports increased… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Ice creams, swims and shade have been our saviours during this scorcher of a summer.

Taumarunui is set to crack 32 degrees C today - a temperature reached several times this month.

Māni Dunlop spoke… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.Canterbury regional council staff are using booms and a sucker truck to try capture the toxic oil flushed into Kaiapoi's rivers following a major factory blaze.

Sutton Tools went up in flames… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

12:26 PM.Lydia Ko has won on the LPGA Tour for the 17th time after scoring a one shot victory at the $3 million dollar Gainbridge tournament in Florida. Audio

12:20 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

12:18 PM.There are growing calls to prioritise MIQ spots and home isolation for pregnant New Zealanders wanting to come home.

It comes as the lawyer for pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis plans to take her… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The National Party's MPs are in Queenstown this morning for their annual caucus retreat.

It kicked off with a speech from former British Finance Minister George Osborne this morning.

RNZ political… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.A Covid-19 modeller thinks New Zealand could hit 1000 cases each day by the middle of next week, largely driven by the Omicron variant. 

Auckland University computational biologist David Welch told… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.An Auckland University modeller thinks Covid cases could reach 1000 a day by the middle of next week. The Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro has returned a NEGATIVE test result for Covid-19 after… Read more Audio

12:46 PM.The government is touting its partly tunneled light rail project as a gamechanger for the city.

The trains would run every five minutes from Wynyard Quarter all the way to the airport.

The editor of… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.JetStar cabin crew members are concerned the company's not checking people's vaccine passes or evidence of negative tests.

At the beginning of the week, the airline introduced a new policy requiring… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

12:26 PM.New Zealand's most successful Olympian, kayaker Dame Lisa Carrington has continued on her winning way - being awarded the New Zealand Olympic committee's top award, the Lonsdale Cup for the third… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

12:17 PM.Virologists aren't sounding the alarm bells just yet about a mutated version of Omicron that's been seeping into our borders.

There's little currently known about the new strain, dubbed BA.2, besides… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.An extended underground light rail route will be built in Auckland.

The Government has announced the supercity's light rail project will run under the city from Wynyard Quarter to Mt Roskill, before… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.A new way for Aucklanders to get to the airport, and an Omicron mutation is at the border. Audio