Jimmy Ellingham

The red traffic light setting is affecting sports fans.

Restrictions limit crowds to 100, meaning even if venues create separate bubbles for several groups, spectator numbers are well down.

Reporter… Audio

The union representing prison staff is warning the loss of dozens of workers who refused to get vaccinated will disrupt prison life.

The Department of Corrections insists there is no problem, but the… Audio

An experienced ACC lawyer is urging the corporation to urgently review the way it assesses claims for people with work-related terminal cancer.

The call from Auckland lawyer Philip Schmidt comes… Audio

Drinking beer once involved a pint of bitter or larger, or perhaps a flagon of the favourite from the bottle store.

But the industry is now big business and constantly changing to keep up with… Audio

The Silver Fern railcars used to be the height of luxury, gliding between Auckland and Wellington.

Now, it's fair to say, they've seen better days.

Manawatū reporter Jimmy Ellingham found out what… Audio

Manawatu residents are still shovelling mud out of their flood-damaged properties after last week's downpour.

For three days those living along Reu Reu Road in rural Manawatu, about 30 kilometres… Audio

A couple of former bowling greens in Palmerston North are at the centre of a land-use dispute.

The council and housing advocates want them for housing - but the proposals haven't won universal… Audio

A rural Manawatū community is cut off from the outside world after the latest deluge wreaked havoc in the region.

In Feilding some homes have been left sopping after torrents of water tore through… Audio

Heavy rain and thunderstorms have been wreaking havoc - forcing homes to be evacuated, closing roads, causing slips and flash flooding.

A cleanup is underway in Christchurch after the city had more… Audio

More than 13 years after the mysterious disappearance of a Manawatū shearer his family still hope they'll find out what happened to him.

Bevan Wright was dropped off near his house after work in… Audio

DHBs are hoping their best laid plans will be the bedrock for getting through the summer period.

Since Delta arrived in the country, DHBs outside of Auckland have been planning for its arrival at… Audio

Farmers' fields and lifestyle properties near Palmerston North could soon give way to a massive freight yard.

KiwiRail's proposed Regional Freight Hub could open in less than 10 years and the rail… Audio

Abuse survivors of the Lake Alice psychiatric institution got just a fraction of legal compensation that authorities expected they'd be required to pay out.

The government, then led by Jenny Shipley… Audio

As the Covid Delta outbreak creeps across New Zealand, the push is on to increase the rural vaccination rate.

In the northern Wairarapa town of Pongaroa, a vaccination clinic came to the pub.

RNZ's… Audio

MidCentral DHB has joined the 90 percent club today, reaching the milestone for first doses.

But vaccine rates in rural areas of the catchment are still lagging behind.. prompting a specific push… Video, Audio

Covid-19 is continuing its march down the country with 25 of the 167 new cases reported today outside of Auckland.

There is one new case in Mt Maunganui and the other in Tauranga. While in the… Audio

Testing sites in Woodville were busy today following the discovery of two cases there yesterday.

Manawatū reporter Jimmy Ellingham and camera man Angus Dreaver have more.

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There are new two cases of Covid-19 in Woodville near Palmerston North

There are locations of interest in the Wairarapa as far south as Greytown.

RNZ reporter Jimmy Ellingham is in Woodville and… Audio

Health workers have been out in force in Stratford today as hundreds of people lined up for Covid tests.

Testing sites were inundated after it was revealed last night that six members of a Taranaki… Audio

Six positive cases of Covid-19 have been detected in Taranaki, nearly two weeks after the first positive wastewater detection of the virus.

One person is in hospital.

In Stratford, the iwi and DHB… Audio