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  • 'Pleasant surprise': Sprinter Te Puni overcomes setbacks for national record

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    Sport
    5:57 pm today
    Tommy Te Puni has eclipised the NZ 200m record today at the International Track Meet in Christchurch, running 20.35s

    Two years ago, a timing malfunction deprived the Auckland speedster of a possible milestone. Video

    Sprinter Tommy Te Puni overcomes setbacks for national 200 metres record
  • Midday Report Essentials for Friday 20 February 2026

    Audio 20 Feb 2026

    Andrew Mountbatten Windsor remains eighth in line to the throne. How can New Zealand stop him from ever getting near becoming head of state, and has the Prime Minister put any moves into action. We… Audio

  • Will this helmet prevent concussions in footballers?

    News
    Sport
    20 Feb 2026
    Scientists are testing if this helmet could prevent concussion.

    The designer wants to achieve for concussion what seatbelts achieved for road safety.

    Study to test whether helmet will significantly reduce risk of concussion in football players
  • Saturday is Caturday at south Auckland animal shelter

    News
    New Zealand Auckland Region
    13 Feb 2026
    The SPCA has more than 30 kittens available for adoption at its Māngere Centre, where it says the 40-year-old building is crumbling and part of the cattery floods when it rains.

    The SPCA has more than 30 kittens available for adoption at its Māngere Centre, where it says the 40-year-old building is crumbling and part of the cattery floods when it rains. Audio

    More than 30 kittens available for adoption at south Auckland animal shelter
  • Speedsters Hobbs, Whelpton qualify for world indoors at Douglas International

    News
    Sport
    8 Feb 2026
    Zoe Hobbs during 2026 Sir Graeme Douglas International  at The Trusts Arena.

    New Zealand's fastest took advantage of fickle winds to show their fine form in Auckland.

    Speedsters Zoe Hobbs, Tiaan Whelpton qualify for world indoor championships at Douglas International
  • Wairau Valley regeneration has potential to become 'local treasure'

    News
    New Zealand natural disasters
    2 Feb 2026
    Flooding in Auckland's Wairau Valley

    Three years after the Auckland Anniversary floods, the community is working together to turn the Wairau creek catchment into something residents won't fear. Audio

    Wairau Valley regeneration has potential to become 'local treasure'
  • 'Blood on their hands': Sir Tim Shadbolt's partner criticises council at funeral service

    News
    New Zealand national
    16 Jan 2026

    Asha Dutt raised the treatment of Sir Tim during his final term in 2019, saying he would be proud.

    Sir Tim Shadbolt remembered as 'absolutely extraordinary' by family in public service
  • 'We have come to bury Caesar': Family, friends remember Sir Tim Shadbolt

    News
    New Zealand Politics
    16 Jan 2026
    Sir Tim Shadbolt's casket at his funeral.

    Sir Tim is being remembered as a man who always chose to see the best in every situation and the person in every person

    Mourners gather to remember Sir Tim Shadbolt at funeral
  • New Year Honours 2026 - the full list

    News
    New Zealand
    31 Dec 2025
    A composite image of some of insignia from the New Zealand Order of Merit.

    Here is the full list of everyone receiving a 2026 New Year Honour.

    New Year Honours 2026 - the full list
  • Boy left swimming for life as rescue helicopter call delayed

    News
    New Zealand
    24 Dec 2025
    Lake Taupō.

    Police stood down rescue helicopter despite calls about a 14-year-old swimming away from a burning boat in Lake Taupō, RNZ has learned.

    Boy left swimming for life as rescue helicopter call delayed
  • 'What are you afraid of?': Proposal to remove mana whenua voice at council fails

    News
    New Zealand local council
    11 Dec 2025
    Napier City Council voted not to introduce Māori wards in time for next year’s local body elections.

    A proposal from the new Napier Mayor to remove mana whenua voices and voting rights in the council's standing committees for the next council term has failed.

    Proposal to remove mana whenua voice at Napier City Council fails
  • NZTA stands firm on braking system linked to six deaths

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    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
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