Amy Williams

Auckland roads were gridlocked this morning as people dodged flooded and damaged roads to get to work and school.

Twenty roads remain closed, a dozen restaurants and at least one hotel are shut - and… Video, Audio

Insurers are bringing in extra staff from overseas and warning it will be years before all claims are settled for flood damaged homes and cars in Auckland.  

Thousands of homes across the region are… Audio

So instead of throwing open their doors to students, Auckland school principals are welcoming displaced families and counting the cost of Friday's flood damage.

Amy Williams has the story. Audio

Carmel Sepuloni - from a working class family in Waitara who worked in education before rising through the ranks of government - has been named as New Zealand's new deputy Prime Minister.

Sepuloni… Audio

Three children who've been missing for a year with their father who's known to go bush are likely to be feeling anxious about being isolated from other family members for so long.

Tom Phillips and… Audio

Food banks around the country say they've had a flood of demand on re-opening this year and it's not just the homeless needing help.

City Missions say people who have jobs but can't afford their… Audio

Forget house prices, let's talk partridges. The cost of putting on a Christmas spread and buying gifts for your true love has soared in recent years thanks to inflation.

Fifteen years ago we… Audio

Imagine recovering from cancer only to have a leg or arm become more and more swollen, and not be able to get the treatment you need - that's the case for many lymphoedema patients around the country… Audio

People living with a chronic condition that causes a limb to swell are choosing to go to Australia for surgical treatment that isn't offered here, and paying out of their own pocket.

Many are cancer… Audio

Tighten your belts and prepare for recession - the Reserve Bank's hawkish move to turbo-charge interest rates doesn't stop here.

After raising the wholesale interest rate 75 basis points to four and… Audio

Auckland's major events calendar looks alarmingly empty from 2024 and the city's culture and economic agency says it urgently needs to find $20m a year to start filling it.

Most events on the diary… Audio

Auckland's mayor is promising to find huge cost savings, so a massive financial hole won't be filled by significant rate rises.

The hole in ther council's budget has tripled in size - to $270… Audio

Auckland Council's budget is blowing out as inflation runs hot and interest rates continue to rise.

Staff are warning the funding gap is estimated to be $180m higher than the anticipated shortfall of… Audio

The lawyer for Grace Millane's killer has told the Court of Appeal in Auckland that two other women felt driven to be her voice in separate trials which resulted in further convictions.

Jesse Kempson… Audio

Auckland Council has run out of funds to continue its part in an own-your-own-home scheme it set up in the 1970s for those over 65.

One hundred and fifty flats will be affected and already 60 are… Audio

The Crown has been appealing the sentence handed down to 18 year old Jayden Meyer, who raped four girls and sexually violated another.

Meyer was a minor at the time of his offending. He was sentenced… Video, Audio

Fuel companies are warning higher petrol prices are on the way this summer.

The added pain at the pump is expected due to a cut in global oil production, and sanctions on Russian marine oil tankers… Audio