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It took seven months for police to set up their first team for scanning the internet after the mosque attacks - but it was almost immediately in danger of being shut down.

New Zealanders stuck in India are desperate for help, as the country experiences a devastating second wave of Covid-19 cases. Audio

Film drama Nomadland has scooped three Oscars including best picture, while British stars Sir Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Kaluuya have won acting awards.

Late autumn chills have set in for Otago and the lower South Island, with a further bite on the way.

The NZ Security Intelligence Service took two years to implement a major shift in how it targeted threats, but once it did, the rewards were almost immediate.

Constitutions have a way of changing over time, and after a shift in New Zealand's constitution in 2015, a Bill has been introduced with the aim to settle the balance in authority better, Phil Smith … Audio

Earlier this week RNZ Pacific carried a viewpoint on the political stalemate in Samoa from law lecturer at Auckland University, Fuimaono Dylan Asafo.

A Samoan law lecturer at Auckland University has a look at the questions surrounding the Samoa election stalemate.

The New Zealand government is introducing a new category of a "very high risk country" - including India, Brazil, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea - to further bolster the country's defence against…

Papua New Guinea is one of the countries included in a new category of "very high risk country" introduced by New Zealand for managing travel.

The New Zealand government is introducing a new category of a "very high risk country" - including India, Brazil, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea - to further bolster the country's defence against…

The Pullman Hotel managed isolation facility is reopening after a report found airborne transmission was the most likely way returnees were infected with Covid-19.

The government's newly announced health plan heralds a massive change in the system. But commentators say its success depends on what's in the detail.

The Biden administration pledged to slash US greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030 - a new target it hopes will spur other big emitter countries to combat climate change.

Opinion - An effective way to achieve US Climate Envoy John Kerry's goal of decarbonising global shipping is to introduce a greenhouse gas levy, Marshall Islands Ambassador to Fiji Albon Ishoda writes…

Three weeks on from their rally calling for more action against sexual violence, members of the newly-formed Wellington Alliance Against Sexual Violence have voiced their demands to politicians.

Opinion - Pacific Islands countries can't survive without the shipping industry, and yet cannot survive with the contributions it makes to climate change, writes Albon Ishoda.

More than a 1000 people are expected to request to end their lives in the first year of New Zealand's assisted dying regime, the Ministry of Health says.

People on both sides of the Irish border were polled for a BBC programme marking 100 years since Ireland was partitioned.

Japan's government is considering a state of emergency for Tokyo and Osaka which would allow curbs to be introduced to stop Covid-19 infections spreading, a broadcaster says.

Massive house-to-house screening in Fiji's western towns is being rolled out amid fears hundreds of people may have picked up Covid-19 at a funeral.

Patients requesting euthanasia will be given unapproved, unregulated and "off label" medicines, sparking warnings of prolonged and distressing deaths.