Guyon Espiner

RNZ is challenging a reporting ban which effectively prevents media publishing any information about the fatal police shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens.

Lawyers acting for the public… Audio

A Tauranga couple have been forced to split up their family so their daughter can access treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Australia - treatment that Pharmac won't fund in New Zealand.

They… Audio

The Football Ferns kneeled before their opening match of the Tokyo Olympics against Australia last night - a gesture known as a call for racial equality in sport.

One of the first events of the… Audio

The government has ordered a review of how asylum seekers are treated when they arrive in New Zealand and whether it meets its human rights obligations.

The move is being hailed as a breakthrough by… Audio

As the formal government apology for the Dawn Raids nears, women members of the Polynesian Panthers are reflecting on their part in the fight.

The social justice group was set up in 1971 to target… Audio

Environmental groups are urging the Southland District Council to reverse a decision allowing coal exploration in the region.

The council has granted Australian-owned mining company New Brighton… Audio

The NZ Police has admitted it may not be able to make use of money granted through the Criminal Proceeds Fund within the timeframe it had promised.

Several police projects have been funded through… Audio

Efforts continue in Westport today to find shelter for hundreds of people displaced by serious flooding.

Eighty-nine homes in the town have been red-stickered, and for 95 people, Westport South… Audio

The umbrella term Pacific Islander or Polynesian has been criticised as degrading and insensitive.

Researcher, Dr Seini Taufa, who is a New Zealand-born Tongan, says the names are not indigenous… Audio

National Party Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop is calling for more urgency in the Covid-19 vaccination rollout.

The first cohort of group four will be invited to book in for their vaccinations… Audio

New research shows disabled people are twice as likely to experience violence than the able-bodied, and for women that abuse is most likely to occur at home.

The authors of the study, published in… Audio

When breaking the news of horrific treatment of prisoners at Auckland Women’s Prison, Guyon Espiner came face to face with a deeper story, of personal and cultural trauma. Audio

Searches by boat and air have failed to find a pod of orca spotted off Wellington's southern coast.

But conservationists still hope they'll be able to find the pod that abondoned the baby orca Toa at… Audio

Justice advocate and former National Party Minister Chester Borrows says the ACT Party's proposed policy on gangs doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

Borrows, a former police officer who was Courts… Audio

After a year-long postponement, and all the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics finally get underway today.

With the football tournaments kicking off two days prior to… Audio

Temporary accommodation services in Westport are to be activated for those with homes damaged by severe weather, including extensive flooding.

Flooding beginning last Friday afternoon has left many… Audio

National party leader Judith Collins says the Police Commissioner was wrong to can Armed Response Teams, after two shootings incidents involving police in recent weeks.

Commissioner Andrew Coster… Audio