Lisa Owen

Lisa Owen, Corin Dann and Guyon Espiner kick off the Election 2020 evening as they wait for the first vote results to come in. Video, Audio

Regional journalism appears to have a golden ticket. The Labour Party is promising to invest in local journalism and revisit the idea of merging TVNZ and RNZ if re-elected for a second term.

Jonathan… Audio

Hawke's Bay councils say they've got to stop the squabbling over funding to fix coastal erosion.

They're planning to bring in a QC or retired judge to figure out how they can get the money to stop… Audio

The New Zealand Defence Force has been fined nearly $300,000 over the death of a navy diver during a training exercise in March last year.

Zachary Christopher Yarwood was found unresponsive on the… Audio

Advance voting could crack the two million mark by close of play today.

The Electoral Commission has been crunching the numbers. Total early votes topped 1.74 million yesterday, already half a… Video, Audio

The latest political poll, from Newshub and Reid Research, has been released a day before the final day of voting. RNZ political editor Jane Patterson joins Lisa Owen in the studio with her analysis.

An Auckland pug has been treated like a thug - with the council seizing it over a missed registration payment and threatening death if the bill wasn't paid within a week.

Owner Semaine Cato was at… Video, Audio

Some New Zealanders taking advantage of the quarantine-free safe travel zone with New South Wales and the Northern Territory plan on heading straight to other states once they've landed.

But the… Audio

A Taupo man says he heard "horrific" screams at a lakefront spot last night, near the place where a member of the public discovered two bodies this morning.

Mystery surrounds the deaths, with police… Audio

Front line paramedics want stronger commitments to funding for St John, than those offered by the two women vying to be prime minister. Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and National's Judith Collins were… Audio

The minor parties have crammed their diaries today to try and snag any remaining undecided voters.

There were ferry rides, fighting words, coffee making and even tears in the final hours of the… Audio

The All Blacks team has been named for the second Bledisloe Cup test at Eden Park and there have been several promotions and demotions, with five changes to the starting XV.

After last week's draw… Video, Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

The Briscoe Group believes it was justified in taking the government wage subsidy but says it's now paid back all $11.5m of it because sales are looking good.

The retail group that also includes… Video, Audio

It's the final countdown.. the last day of campaiging for political parties - the last chance to win any undecided voters.

At least 1.7 million people have already voted - that's almost half the… Audio

It's been a slow and fraught process, dragged out over 30 years, but the Maori community in the Auckland suburb of Te Atatu are one step closer to having a marae in their neighbourhood.

For decades… Audio

New Zealand is being branded a 'climate criminal' in the wake of a new report that warns of rapidly increasing fire danger and punishing traffic pollution.

The 84-page report, from the Ministry for… Audio

From Friday, New Zealanders will be able to say g'day to our Aussie neighbours without having to isolate on arrival across the ditch.

The one-way travel bubble is with New South Wales and the… Audio

It's just two more sleeps until election day, and there's been a last minute push to get more young people enrolled to vote.

Historically, the under-30 voter turnout is low compared with other… Audio

There has been a surge in support for Greens in the latest 1 News Colmar Brunton political poll, which shows Labour needing their support to govern.

The poll shows Labour with 46 percent, National 31… Video, Audio