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  • NZTA stands firm on braking system linked to six deaths

    News
    New Zealand transport
    28 Nov 2025
    Front Truck Wheels Tires. Rubber, Wheel Tyres. Freight Trucks Transport Logistics. Auto Service Shop.

    The transport agency has assured the minister that the braking system is not unsafe, going against findings in the 2018 death of Graeme Rabbits. Audio

    NZ Transport Agency assures Minister Chris Bishop braking system not inherently unsafe
  • Rescue chopper crew chase down car after laser strike

    News
    New Zealand national
    19 Nov 2025
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    Two paramedics were targeted while flying over Palmerston on a hospital transfer mission on Tuesday night. Audio

    Rescue chopper crew chase down car after laser strike
  • Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 19 November 2025

    Audio
    health life and society
    19 Nov 2025

    Testing companies are getting busy as the spread of potentially contaminated children's play sand reaches council libraries; Fifteen years on from the Pike River disaster, some families are meeting… Audio

  • Rescue chopper crew chase down offenders after laser pen strike

    Audio
    crime
    19 Nov 2025

    The crew onboard a rescue helicopter who were struck by a laser pen, followed the car the laser came from until police could intervene. Helicopters Otago managing director Graeme Gale spoke to… Audio

  • Failed braking system led to Graeme Rabbits' death - his wasn't the first or last

    News
    New Zealand The Detail
    15 Nov 2025
    Selwyn Rabbits father of Graeme Rabbits

    For years, a father has been fighting for Waka Kotahi to do more about the dangers of a vehicle braking system involved in his son's death. Now a coroner's report backs him up, but NZTA still… Audio

    The father fighting NZTA over 'inherently unsafe' brakes in some 70,000 vehicles
  • New find of rare native parasitic plant in Wellington sparks hopes of return

    News
    Environment Our Changing World
    11 Nov 2025
    Barrett Pistoll and Bart Cox assembling cages to protect Te Pua o Te Rēinga in the Wainuiomata Water Protection area

    They were thought extinct in the region for 100 years, now the race is on to save a rare parasitic plant in the capital.

    Our Changing World: Resurrecting Wellington’s Flowers of the Underworld
  • Tongariro fire: Tourists helicoptered out as ash fell from sky

    News
    New Zealand
    10 Nov 2025
    German tourist Matthias Gerold escaped the fire from the Alpine track

    A tourist evacuated from Tongariro National Park to avoid the fire burning through the region saw ash falling from the sky before he was helicoptered out. Audio

    Tongariro fire: Tourists helicoptered out as ash fell from sky
  • Parts of Tongariro National Park reduced to ash, Lodge owner says

    News
    New Zealand
    10 Nov 2025
    The Tongariro fire as seen from near the summit of Mt Ruapehu this weekend.

    The owner of Tongariro Crossing Lodge says the wildifre has been keeping him busy helping to fill planes with water and managing bookings.

    Parts of Tongariro National Park reduced to ash in huge blaze, Lodge owner says
  • Common truck brakes 'inherently unsafe', coroner rules

    News
    New Zealand transport
    6 Nov 2025
    Graeme Rabbits

    Tens of thousands of trucks are putting people at risk because their brakes are unsafe. Audio

    Cardan shaft park brakes 'inherently unsafe', coroner rules
  • 70,000 vehicles fitted with unsafe breaks, caused six deaths

    Audio
    transport
    6 Nov 2025

    Tens of thousands of trucks in New Zealand are fitted with unsafe brakes that could fail at anytime. That is according to a damning coroners report into the death of an Auckland worker nearly eight… Audio

  • Wild weather delivers power cuts, evacuations and terrifying flights

    News
    New Zealand Emergency news coverage
    21 Oct 2025
    The damage to the SH7 near Engineers Camp, between Springs Junction and the Hanmer Springs turnoff.

    The storms that have swept through parts of the country also claimed a life when a man was hit by a tree. Audio

    Wild weather delivers power cuts, evacuations, terrifying flights and a crushed car
  • 'You're gonna have rubbish everywhere else' - halving collections riles residents

    News
    New Zealand national
    20 Oct 2025
    The Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board are pleased with the decision to defer fortnightly rubbish collections.

    Moving from weekly to fortnightly rubbish collection is an idea that some Aucklanders want to see binned before it has even begun. Audio

    'You're gonna have rubbish everywhere else' - halving collections not popular with some residents
  • 'Whole ecosystem destroyed': Residents 'horrified' as trees cut down

    News
    New Zealand environment
    25 Sep 2025
    Chris McBride and Graeme MacRae

    Axes and chainsaws have dashed residents' hopes a patch of beloved native trees at a housing complex could be saved.

    Residents 'horrified' as native trees cut down in Freemans Bay
  • 'Ignored': Anger over body corp's plans to remove native trees

    News
    New Zealand environment
    18 Sep 2025
    Chris McBride and Graeme MacRae

    Residents at a central Auckland housing complex say the planned removal of the trees from their front garden feels like a violation.

    Anger over body corp's plans to remove residents' native trees in Freemans Bay
  • What new NZ investors are doing wrong

    News
    Business money
    5 Sep 2025
    Small house, gold coins and descending graph line

    Many people are getting into the New Zealand market for the wrong reasons, author and property coach says.

    What new investors are doing wrong, according to a property coach
  • Council's housing density plan will bring more people to inner Auckland, architect says

    News
    New Zealand local council
    22 Aug 2025
    An aerial view of an Auckland suburb showing many blocks of housing.

    Auckland Council has voted to take the draft changes out for consultation. Audio

    Council's housing density plan will bring more people to inner Auckland, architect says
  • Mysterious Chinese billion-dollar proposed deal in Nauru sparks concern

    News
    Pacific Nauru
    20 Aug 2025
    Public information about the company behind the billion-dollar deal is not easily accessible. (Supplied: The Government of the Republic of Nauru/Facebook)

    Australia has pressed Nauru for more detail about a claimed billion-dollar investment agreement that it has signed with a mysterious Chinese company.

    Mysterious Chinese billion-dollar proposed deal in Nauru sparks concern in Canberra
  • Man with disability moves out of motel after four years

    News
    New Zealand disability
    15 Aug 2025
    Shane Emeny's kitchen in his house after living in a motel for 4 years

    Shane Emeny's Kāinga Ora house has been modified for a wheelchair user and gives him the privacy he's craved since 2021.

    Man with disability moves into own home after four years waiting in a motel
  • Should Jacinda Ardern have fronted up to the Covid-19 inquiry?

    Audio
    law politics
    14 Aug 2025
    (FILES) In this file photo taken on November 30, 2020, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives for a press conference to speak about the charges laid over the 2019 White Island volcanic eruption, in Wellington. - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on January 19, 2023 she will resign next month.

    Emile Donovan speaks to constitutional lawyer Graeme Edgeler about why former ministers weren't compelled to attend the Royal Commission of Inquiry. Audio

  • Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution

    News
    New Zealand Environment
    12 Aug 2025
    Cars stuck in gridlock traffic during heavy rain in Auckland on 9 May, 2023.

    Congestion charges can lower emissions and travel times by putting cordons around the central city and spending the revenue on public transport, but proposals for Auckland could end up doing neither.

    Why congestion charging might not lower Auckland's air pollution
  • Luxon to tell National faithful country is 'turning the corner'

    News
    Politics
    2 Aug 2025
    Christopher Luxon at new institute announcement

    Party members are gathering in Christchurch, as MPs try to steer public minds towards the government's cost-of-living policies.

    Luxon to tell National faithful 'we're turning the corner'
  • The electoral changes that will disenfranchise tens of thousands

    News
    Politics The Detail
    30 Jul 2025
    Voting sign

    The government's suite of amendments to electoral law haven't gone down well, but that's not stopping them from pushing ahead with the changes.

    When it's worth waiting for democracy
  • When it's worth waiting for democracy

    Audio
    life and society law
    30 Jul 2025

    The government's suite of amendments to electoral law haven't gone down well, but that's not stopping them from pushing ahead with the changes. Audio

  • When it's worth waiting for democracy

    Audio
    life and society law
    30 Jul 2025

    The government's suite of amendments to electoral law haven't gone down well, but that's not stopping them from pushing ahead with the changes. Audio

  • Seymour's 'dropkicks' comments about voters 'unhelpful' - Goldsmith

    News
    Politics
    25 Jul 2025
    Paul Goldmsith

    The government is moving to cut when people can enrol to vote, and officials warn it could hit turnout. Meanwhile, the Justice Minister has critcised comments by the ACT leader. Audio

    Enrolment changes could have 'significant' impact on democratic participation - Ministry of Justice
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