Lisa Owen

Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa descendants are overjoyed they can do up their wharenui - while also attracting their rangatahi back to their marae - with over $1.5 million from the Provincial Growth Fund.

Work has started on a new railway line after a decades-long wait to free up one of Auckland's busiest choke points.

The government-funded programme was announced today. Building a third line between… Audio

Restaurants and bars around the country are scrambling for staff and say they can't fill even senior positions, with closed borders keeping both workers and clients away.

But the Restaurant… Video, Audio

The Taranaki Medical Officer of Health says New Zealand finds itself "in the eye of a Covid-19 storm" and more testing is required to discover if there has been undetected transmission in the… Audio

The 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate which caused the fatal explosion first arrived on leaky Russian-registered cargo ship in Lebanon in September 2013. Video, Audio

To Beirut now where Lebanese authorities have arrested 16 people, including the Port manager, as the investigation into Tuesday's fatal explosion which displaced a quarter of a million people… Video, Audio

Oranga Tamariki's bosses have fronted up to the Waitangi Tribunal today to explain why Māori fare so badly in the state care system.

The tribunal's urgent inquiry is underway in Wellington. It comes… Audio

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

A woman has been sentenced to 11 and a half months home detention for the manslaughter of her partner.

A high court judge ruled the years of domestic violence Karen Anne Ruddelle faced, and her… Audio

Nearly 10,000 New Zealanders have had to live in motels over the past three months, with the public housing waitlist up 50 percent on the same time last year.

Latest figures through to the end of… Audio

Nearly 14,000 more people have taken up the wage subsidy last week and more than 466,000 jobs are still being supported by the government's scheme.

The scheme will come to an end in just under a… Video, Audio

Workers on the front line of New Zealand's border at airports, isolation and quarantine facilities should get unlimited sick leave to help keep Covid-19 out of the community, Professor Shaun Hendy… Video, Audio

MPs are now preparing to hit the campaign as Parliament shuts up shop before the general election.

They've spent the afternoon giving their final speeches in the debating chamber.

Here's RNZ deputy… Audio

The delay of a DIY cervical cancer screening test is angering doctors - and they're warning of a looming crisis of undiagnosed cancer.

The test, which women can do themselves, has been promised since… Audio

A special Covid card designed to help with contact tracing will be trialled on a small group of people in Rotorua. The government says the card developed in conjunction with Otago Univeristy and… Video, Audio

Doctors say the coroner's findings into the death of Dunedin toddler Hineihana Sosefina Mausii demonstrate the need for change.

A coroner says the two-year-old was let down by a system which allowed… Audio

A very public dentist check up might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but a mobile dental clinic was set up in front of the Beehive today to prove a point - the price of keeping your teeth in check… Video, Audio

The government is giving the thumbs down to the idea of privately-run managed isolation facilities in the short-term.

Talks of private pay-as-you-go isolation hotels emerged from the Covid-19… Video, Audio

Pipe bombs were used by thieves trying to get cash out of a Hamilton ATM machine in the early hours of this morning sparking a major police emergency.

The Chartwell Shopping Centre was cordoned-off… Video, Audio

Warning: Report contains details that may be disturbing to some listeners.

Questions of consent have been raised - once again - in the Grace Millane case as it returned to court today.

Ms Millane… Audio