Lisa Owen

Pita Gus Sowakula might be playing in a losing team, but the 25-year-old Chiefs No.8 is stamping his mark on Super Rugby Aotearoa, and has his eyes on an All Blacks prize.

The Chiefs are winless in… Audio

A government initiative to help fruit and veggie growers while also feeding hungry whānau is coming to an end - but food banks say demand for the service is only growing.

The Agriculture Minister on… Video, Audio

At least a thousand people have queued of for a Covid test in Queenstown today - after a recent visitor tested positive in South Korea.

WellSouth organised a temporary drive-thru testing site at the… Video, Audio

An independent report into the Provincial Growth fund has found there's a lack of transparency and accountability when it comes to some spending, despite recent reporting improvements.

The report by… Audio

Truckies and local leaders are at breaking point over a dangerous highway between Napier and Taupō, where eight people have been killed in the last twelve months.

They say government ministers and… Video, Audio

The disgraced former Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has returned to Parliament for the first time since his sacking to give his final farewell speech.

The Palmerston North MP was last month stripped of… Audio

You may remember the provocative Canadian speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux.

The High Court has previously upheld a decision to cancel their booking at the Bruce Mason Centre in 2018 for… Audio

The trial of a former school teacher accused of abusing teenage boys has now heard from two of the boys at the centre of the case.

Benjamin Swann is on trial in the High Court at Auckland for the… Audio

The eye-watering cost of keeping the Christchurch mosque gunman behind bars has reignited calls for him to be sent back to Australia to serve his sentence there.

RNZ deputy political editor Craig… Audio

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

Video sharing platform Tik Tok could become part of Microsoft's empire in a matter of weeks after a political ultimatum from Donald Trump.

The US President has warned he will ban the Chinese-owned… Video, Audio

The Victorian government has brought in strict new penalties for those breaching home isolation rules as the state prepares for a tough Level 4 business shutdown tomorrow night.

A curfew is already… Audio

New Zealanders are being encouraged to get tested for Covid-19, as daily testing rates are falling well short of the Ministry of Health's own targets.

On Monday 1,608 tests were completed, with a… Video, Audio

There are questions about mental health care for those in managed isolation and quarantine following the sentencing of the first person to flee such a facility today.

Suzanne Marie Derrett was… Audio

It is impossible to tell if the $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund spending is value for taxpayer money, according to the Auditor General.

John Ryan's report released today raises concerns about a… Video, Audio

Netball is by far the sport of choice for New Zealand girls and teenagers - and it seems more dads are getting onboard. Some are putting their hands up to coach their daughter's netball teams and… Video, Audio

Professional wrestling had its hey day in New Zealand in the seventies when On the Mat was a must see on TV for many.

Steve Rickard, John Da Silva and Robert Bruce became household names along side… Video, Audio

The good, the bad and the ugly of Oranga Tamariki social work practice was aired by claimaints in the Waitangi tribunal today.

It's the second and final day of the urgent hearing into why there is a… Audio

Students at Māngere College took one for the team of five million, getting a jab in the arm for another deadly disease the country's had a brush with - measles.

Many of them are part of a missing… Video, Audio

There are grave concerns for Melbourne's aged care sector as Covid-19 cases continue to spread through rest homes in Victoria.

Another 627 coronavirus cases were recorded today, as many Victorians… Video, Audio