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Did the country's aviation regulator do enough to prevent one of New Zealand's worst helicopter crashes from happening, and have changes been made to stop one happening again.

These are some of the… Audio

While the loss of international visitors to West Coast glacier towns has caused job cuts, businesses to close and people to leave, further up the Coast, the picture is a bit rosier.

MarketView… Audio

The police have busted a major cocaine smuggling operation. 

Eight people have been arrested and cocaine with a street value in the millions of dollars has been seized. 

RNZ reporter Conan Young… Audio

The biggest party of the year in Christchurch is still happening today, despite a ban on spectators at Addington Raceway. Covid rules limiting large crowds meant just 1200 members, trainers and… Video, Audio

In Ōtautahi, Christchurch, Cup Day is going ahead today without a crowd.

As well as a bit of horse racing the event is usually a spectacle of flash frocks, fascinators, and suave suits.

RNZ reporter… Audio

A legal expert says the Christchurch terrorist has an uphill battle in claiming his rights have been breached.

The terrorist also claims his guilty plea was given under duress.

He is now being… Audio

The Christchurch City Council is reassuring residents there's little risk of beaches becoming contaminated with untreated waste.

That's despite a huge fire at a sewage treatment plant, east of the… Audio

There's a massive fire at a Christchurch waste water treatment plant that has sent a huge plume of smoke into the air.

It's in Bromley, about 7km east of the city, but the smoke can be seen from the… Video, Audio

After years of slow growth, property prices in Christchurch are all of a sudden surging ahead and fast catching up with the rest of the country.

Figures from Quotable Value show the Garden City… Audio

Christchurch residents are upset and angry the virus is back in their city after nearly a year of being free of it. Two positive cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the suburb of Bishopdale yesterday.

The amount councils are spending on keeping in touch with Cantabrians has gone up by as much as 82 percent in the past six years.

Figures released to RNZ show increases in the communications budgets… Audio

Big tech platforms have failed to tackle the misinformation and toxicity they spread - and their dominance of the market for digital media revenue is becoming increasingly obvious. Australia's… Video, Audio

About 3000 Cantabrians short changed on the payouts they received for their quake damaged homes are a step closer to getting their money, after the settlement of a landmark class action.

After a… Audio

The country is jumping in boots and all to replace high carbon coal boilers with cleaner ones powered by wood pellets.

Hospitals, schools and the country's second biggest emitter, Fonterra, are all… Audio

As daily Covid cases continue to climb in Auckland, there are rumblings of rebellion in the South Island and a call to break away.

The separatists now have some allies in high places with top… Audio

Experts warn it's probably just a matter of time before Covid-19 spreads its tentacles further and in to areas such as the South Island, which hasn't had widespread transmission for almost 18 months.

The West Coast is falling behind when it comes to uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine, sitting stubbornly low at 71 percent for first jabs.

That compares poorly to the rest of Te Wai Pounamu where the… Audio

A trial date has been set for the South African mother of three charged with killing her three daughters.

40 year old Lauren Dickason, who is a medical practitioner, was excused from appearing in the… Audio

It's been four months since the Ashburton district was slammed with a one in two hundred year flood and still the clean up continues.

With most of the $4 million in government help now accounted for… Audio

There is a lot riding on this Monday's Covid-19 level announcement, and not just for Aucklanders desperate to get back to a life as relatively normal.

A shift down to level 2 for the country's… Audio

The government's plans to transfer control of water infrastructure from councils to a new agency took another blow on Monday.

The proposal has already been rejected by the country's largest council… Audio

Imagine being told you had just 30 minutes to choose a handful of your most prized possessions before everything you owned was put in a skip and taken to the dump.

A Christchurch family says that was… Audio

About 300 people gathered outside the Timaru home where the three South African sisters were killed a week ago yesterday.

At the candlelight vigil last night, a message was read out from the father… Audio