Charlotte Cook

A group of protesters are picketing outside the Iranian embassy in Wellington, condemning the country's brutal crackdown of demonstrations against the regime.

The protesters say more than 240 people… Audio

Te Whatu Ora, Health NZ has released its plans for the next two years as it figures out how to replace 20 individual district ones that existed under the previous structure.  

The interim plan has a… Audio

Soldiers on the front line in Ukraine say they have no idea why only the body of the American man killed alongside Dominic Abelen is being repatriated but not the New Zealander.

Joshua Jones was… Audio

An independent panel on local government thinks councils are losing the trust of their communities, and their consultation processes are excluding many people from participating. It comes amid three… Audio

Questions are being asked about why an American soldier who died alongside Dominic Abelen was able to be repatriated, but not the New Zealander. 

Abelen and Joshua Jones were killed in August when… Audio

Cruise ships are back, visiting ports around the country bringing with them more covid.

Health NZ is refusing to say if there are Covid-19 cases on the cruise ship Celebrity Eclipse currently docked… Audio

National population growth is predicted to slow to less than 1 percent each year for the next decade.

But what growth remains will be highest in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty.

And… Audio

Metservice has issued several severe weather warnings the first of which comes into force this evening.

Metservice says Aotearoa is heading into an unsettled period of weather with heavy rain kicking… Audio

Thousands of community nurses are striking again over their employers' inability to deliver pay parity after a year of failed negotiations.

Primary Health Care and Plunket nurses have the same… Audio

A New Zealand couple who were held in Iran for four months are extremely relieved to be free.

Iranian authorities stopped Topher Richwhite and Bridget Thackwray from leaving the country for four… Audio

The Prime Minister's electorate office in Morningside was attacked overnight.

Police are still at the scene investigating what happened, and say a 57-year-old woman has been arrested in relation to… Audio

On the 9th of December almost three years ago, seven pilots took matters into their own hands to rescue people from the erupting Whakaari Island.

47 people were on the island that day, 22 of them… Audio

A new survey of students at the co-located Shirley Boys' and Avonside Girls' schools show many are being sexually harassed and assaulted.

Fewer than half the boys took part in the survey, but of… Audio

Green Party human rights and foreign affairs spokesperson Golriz Ghahraman is questioning whether Iran used a New Zealand couple as a pawn to stop the government speaking out on its human rights… Audio

A New Zealand couple held in Iran have escaped the country safe and well after being stuck there for months.

Topher Richwhite and his wife Bridget Thackwray had been unable to leave the Middle… Audio

They say victory tastes sweet and that's especially true for a young chocolate maker from rural Wairarapa.

Johnty Tatham and his company Lucid Chocolatier have been named the supreme winner of this… Audio

Rishi Sunak will be the UK's next Prime Minister, and the first one of Hindu descent.

The former treasurer took out the Conservative Party leadership after his would-be rival, Penny Mordaunt, dropped… Audio

A new campaign's being launched to encourage families to anonymously dob in young people who they think are involved in crime. 

It comes after an uptick in some youth crimes this year.

Business… Audio

Patients in need of urgent care are waiting longer than they have in years to be seen in hospital emergency departments.

The latest figures, to June this year, show the falling numbers of people… Audio

Hackers have posted stolen patient information on the dark web.

The names, addresses and other personal information of up to 450,000 people was stolen in the cyber-attack on Pinnacle Midlands Health… Audio