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  • Nelson council investigating options for library, civic centre and community hub

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    New Zealand local council
    5 Aug 2024
    Nelson's Elma Turner Library

    In March, the council unveiled a proposal to develop a $90 million community facility after revelations two of the council's main buildings were nearing the end of life, becoming increasingly…

    Nelson council investigating options for development of library, civic centre and community hub
  • Retired surgeon on murder trial: Blood found on wife's bed belonged to husband

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    New Zealand court
    5 Aug 2024
    Philip Polkinghorne at day 1 of his trial for the murder of his wife at the High Court at Auckland.

    Philip Polkinghorne denies killing his wife Pauline Hanna in their Remuera home in 2021.

    Philip Polkinghorne murder trial: Retired surgeon accused of killing wife back in court
  • Recap: Polkinghorne trial week one: Murder or suicide?

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    New Zealand court
    3 Aug 2024
    Philip Polkinghorne at day 1 of his trial for the murder of his wife at the High Court at Auckland.

    The six-week trial of a retired eye surgeon began in the High Court in Auckland this week. Here's what we know so far.

    Polkinghorne trial week one: Murder or suicide?
  • Muchirahondo rape trial: Police 'oversight' in not sending underwear for tests

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    New Zealand
    2 Aug 2024
    John Hope Muchirahondo

    A police officer says it was an oversight that underwear from a sexual assault complainant was not sent for forensic testing, despite the lab requesting it.

    John Muchirahondo trial: Police quizzed on why underwear not sent for forensic tests
  • Pauline Hanna seen with orange rope before death

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    New Zealand crime
    2 Aug 2024
    Philip Polkinghorne at day 1 of his trial for the murder of his wife at the High Court at Auckland.

    An alleged murder victim was captured on CCTV a day before her death in possession of an orange rope found hanging from a balustrade in her home.

    Philip Polkinghorne: Power cuts interrupt court trial of murder-accused
  • Fears women can't afford to leave abusive partners due to cost of living

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    New Zealand
    2 Aug 2024
    Stop violence against Women,sexual abuse, human trafficking, The concept of sexual harassment against women and rape, black and white image

    Agencies are providing domestic violence victims with more food parcels and clothing than ever as financial hardship makes bad situations worse.

    Fears women can't afford to leave abusive relationships amid cost of living crisis
  • Expert rebuffs defence lawyer's claims in rape trial

    News
    New Zealand
    1 Aug 2024
    John Hope Muchirahondo

    The lawyer for a man accused of multiple rapes has suggested in court that another witness was responsible for one of them.

    John Hope Muchirahondo: Expert rebuffs defence lawyer's assault claims over witness
  • Polkinghorne murder trial: Police quizzed on state of bedroom

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    New Zealand crime
    1 Aug 2024
    Philip Polkinghorne at day 1 of his trial for the murder of his wife at the High Court at Auckland.

    A police sergeant giving evidence at a murder trial of a man accused of staging the murder of his wife to look like a suicide says there was no proof of the body being moved but the state of the…

    Philip Polkinghorne murder trial: Court hears evidence on state of bedroom
  • RNZ goes live with new Pacific shortwave transmitter

    News
    Pacific
    1 Aug 2024
    An aerial shot of the new RNZ Pacific transmitter.

    Foreign Affairs Minister, Winston Peters, who officiated at the commissioning in Wellington on Thursday, says it is "seriously important now" than when it began in 1990.

    RNZ goes live with new Pacific shortwave transmitter
  • Muchirahondo rape trial: First witness takes stand

    News
    New Zealand court
    31 Jul 2024
    John Hope Muchirahondo

    A witness says she remembers a man accused of multiple rapes telling her to stop crying after she woke to find him on top of her.

    John Hope Muchirahondo: First witness takes stand in trial of accused multiple rapist
  • Rope at scene of surgeon's wife's death 'seemed unusual', detective says

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    New Zealand crime
    31 Jul 2024
    Philip Polkinghorne at day 1 of his trial for the murder of his wife at the High Court at Auckland.

    A police officer has described what he saw at the scene of Pauline Hanna's death

    Rope at scene of Pauline Hanna's death 'seemed unusual', detective says
  • Murder-accused Philip Polkinghorne told police of last night with wife

    News
    New Zealand court
    30 Jul 2024
    Philip Polkinghorne at day 1 of his trial for the murder of his wife at the High Court at Auckland.

    The man accused of murdering his wife and staging it to look like a suicide told police the couple were sleeping in separate rooms at the time of her death.

    Murder-accused Philip Polkinghorne told police of last night with wife before finding her dead
  • 'His demeanour changed': Medic describes retired eye surgeon after wife's death

    News
    New Zealand crime
    30 Jul 2024
    Philip Polkinghorne at day 1 of his trial for the murder of his wife at the High Court at Auckland.

    A medic has told the High Court in Auckland John Polkinghorne was calm after Pauline Hanna's death, but that changed when he made a phone call.

    Retired eye surgeon 'calm' after wife's death, medic says
  • Is a capital gains tax the answer to unaffordable renting?

    News
    New Zealand Business
    30 Jul 2024
    Selling home ,Landlord and New home. The house key for unlocking a new house is plugged into the door. Mortgage, rent, buy, sell, move home concept

    Renting is becoming increasingly unaffordable for most households, new data shows.

    Is a capital gains tax the answer to unaffordable renting?
  • Jump in number of people selling second-hand clothes online

    News
    New Zealand
    29 Jul 2024
    Shopping for clothes

    Online pre-loved clothing stores across the country say there has been a big increase in people wanting to sell their clothes. Audio

    Jump in number of people selling second-hand clothes online
  • 'Atomic bomb hell must never be repeated' - Japan's last survivors

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    World history
    28 Jul 2024
    The destruction in Hiroshima after the nuclear explosion, on 6 August 1945.

    Victims of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki believe their horrific past must act as a warning for the future.

    'Atomic bomb hell must never be repeated' - Japan's last survivors
  • Housing as a human right: artist and advocate Dieneke Jansen 

    Audio
    arts
    28 Jul 2024
    Te Mātāwai - a major social housing development in central Auckland has opened after four years of construction.

    We’re in a housing crisis, most people agree. With strong awareness of the inequalities that it brings. 

    Yet, when it comes to talking about solutions to something so complex yet so personal, people… Audio

  • Why would you open an eatery in a cost of living crisis?

    News
    New Zealand Business
    27 Jul 2024
    Owner of The Gaff, Ryan Dill-Russell.

    While plenty of places have been forced to shutter, there are 'risk takers' in hospo giving it a crack. Nicky Park and Jogai Bhatt talk to some of them.

    Here's what it takes to open an eatery in a cost of living crisis
  • Will Gen X ever be able to retire?

    News
    Business
    26 Jul 2024
    Gen X and retirement

    Caught between ageing parents and struggling kids, retirement planning is tough for a whole generation.

    Will Gen X ever be able to retire?
  • Wellington musician convicted of rape can now be named

    News
    New Zealand court
    26 Jul 2024
    Martin Ditlhabi

    Martin Ditlhabi, now 27, was arrested after a raft of sexual allegations on social media.

    Wellington musician convicted of rape can now be named
  • Child poverty targets quietly lowered, to surprise of advocates

    News
    Politics inequality
    26 Jul 2024
    Louise Upston

    Louise Upston has rejected criticisms of lowered child poverty reduction targets, saying they are achievable and ambitious. Audio

    Minister defends lowered child poverty targets as 'achievable'
  • Pregnant at 12, running from 'care'

    News
    New Zealand Politics
    26 Jul 2024
    Joyce Harris photographed in her home. A United Tribes flag hangs behind her.

    The government took Joyce Harris's first baby and sent her off to a girls' home. Half a century on - and out of oceans of hurt - it asked her to be a mother figure.

    The state care decision that rippled through four generations
  • Macron yet to sign off on Pacific leaders New Caledonia visit

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    Pacific
    25 Jul 2024
    French gendarme officers guard the entrance of the Vallee-du-Tir district, in Noumea on May 14, 2024, amid protests linked to a debate on a constitutional bill aimed at enlarging the electorate for upcoming elections of the overseas French territory of New Caledonia. After scenes of violence of "great intensity" including burned vehicles, looted stores and clashes between demonstrators and the police, a curfew was decreed in Noumea, 17,000 kilometers from Paris, as the independentists of the overseas French territory of New Caledonia oppose a constitutional revision they fear will "further minimize the indigenous Kanak people". (Photo by Theo Rouby / AFP)

    The French Ambassador to the Pacific, Véronique Roger-Lacan, told RNZ Pacific with the Paris Olympics kicking off this week, it could be tough propping up security in time.

    French President Macron yet to sign off on Pacific leaders request to visit New Caledonia
  • Benjamin Netanyahu speech draws protests to the US Capitol

    News
    World
    25 Jul 2024
    WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu’s visit occurs as the Israel-Hamas war reaches nearly ten months. A handful of Senate and House Democrats boycotted the remarks over Israel’s treatment of Palestine.   Kent Nishimura/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Kent Nishimura / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

    Dozens of Democratic lawmakers skipped the speech by the Israeli Prime Minister.

    Benjamin Netanyahu speech draws protests to the US Capitol
  • Has Kamala Harris got what it takes to beat Trump?

    News
    World
    23 Jul 2024
    (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 22, 2024 shows US Vice President Kamala Harris arriving for an event honoring National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship teams from the 2023-2024 season, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on July 22, 2024 and former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump standing on stage after accepting his party's nomination on the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024. Democrats rapidly coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris on July 22, 2024 as she raced to secure the party's nomination to take on Donald Trump in November in the wake of President Joe Biden's sensational exit. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI and Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

    Her elevation to the top of ticket would bring new strengths for the Democrats, but it also exposes weaknesses that were less of a concern with Biden.

    US election: Has Kamala Harris got what it takes to beat Trump?
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