Alex Perrottet

The All Blacks take on Ireland in a sudden death Rugby World Cup quarter-final in Tokyo on Saturday night and both team's mental preparation will have to be on point if they're to progress to the… Video, Audio

It's been 48 hours since Orewa man Mike McClennan went missing, and his family and the police say their search for him is reaching a critical point.

The 75-year-old has dementia and was last seen on… Audio

The daughter of an elderly woman who died after taking part in a suicide pact with her husband, says her mother showed no signs of being suicidal, and questions why her father did not seek help for… Audio

MediaWorks can no longer make a profit in television so it's put itself up for sale.

The station's 500 staff were called to a meeting on Friday morning and told the company would keep making radio… Video, Audio

Could axing frequent flyer points be key to helping cut New Zealand's greenhouse emissions?

Greenpeace New Zealand is backing a UK government climate change committee report calling for air miles… Audio

One of the country's most notorious child killers has been put back behind bars for at least six years for assault and sexual violation.

Benny Haerewa served 12 years in prison for killing his… Audio

Measles vaccinations may soon be available and given in pharmacies as the government rushes to ramp up the immunisations and halt the spread of the disease.

There's been 1868 confirmed cases this… Video, Audio

South Aucklanders are fearful a new police initiative aimed at making their community safer, which will see armed officers patrolling the streets, will achieve the exact opposite.

Marked police… Video, Audio

Nearly 30 years after New Zealand's first private TV company was launched, its money-losing TV arm has gone on the block.

The decision comes just days after the company announced it would axe or… Audio

Police chased a stolen vehicle across Auckland - a pursuit that involved a crash with another car, before it came to an end at the Middlemore train station platform where the driver was tasered.

He… Video, Audio

Top Tongan rugby league players have snubbed their own domestic rugby league organisation in order to play upcoming international games.

The Tonga National Rugby League sacked coach Kristian Woolf… Audio

To Japan now, and as the country braces for Super Typhoon Hagibis - Scottish rugby fans are nervously awaiting their World Cup fate. Yesterday, World Rugby took the unprecented step of cancelling… Audio

Rugby minnows Uruguay are the giant-killers of the Rugby World Cup, having overcome Fiji 30-27 yesterday in Kamaishi.

It's only Uruguay's fourth World Cup, and the win over Fiji their third ever win… Video, Audio

In this fourth panel discussion Tairawhiti Museum director Eloise Wallace talks with cultural heritage expert Karl Johnstone. Alex Perrottet is in the chair. Audio

In this third panel discussion, Dr Jill Chrisp and Karen Johansen discuss with Alex Perrottet how their life together is affected by their families being on the opposite sides of Gisborne history.  Audio

The government is still trying to work out which benefit sanctions to scrap, despite promises to remove the most excessive measures.

Almost two years into its term in office, the only sanction that's… Video, Audio

Search and rescue personnel have begun recovering bodies after a commercial dive boat was destroyed by fire off the coast of California.

Thirty-five people were on board, when the fire began early on… Video, Audio

Alex Perrottet talks with "recovering racist" Andrew Newton and local body candidate Meredith Akuhata-Brown about race, colonisation, and identity. Recorded on location in Gisborne's Smash Palace. Audio

Fiji police have been questioning a New Zealand resident in connection to the mysterious deaths of five family members in the Pacific island nation.

A couple, their daughter and two granddaughters… Video, Audio

Migrant students left high and dry after their business school went into liquidation say they're disgusted that they've been told to pay more money.

Last week the Kiwi Institute of Training and… Video, Audio