Lisa Owen

National MP Paul Goldsmith concedes it was not the best choice of words to tell Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to "stick to her knitting" after she expressed anger over job cuts at The Warehouse.

The… Video, Audio

All Blacks first-five Beauden Barrett is preparing for a pair of significant firsts when the Blues and Hurricanes meet in the opening round of Super Rugby Aotearoa this weekend.

As well as being his… Video, Audio

The SIS spied on a senior Labour MP in the 1980s and 1990s, even though for part of that time he had an oversight role of the intelligence agency as chair of the justice select committee.

Richard… Audio

Police have apologised to the whānau of a 16-year-old boy from Masterton who was arrested last year after being wrongly identified as a suspect who had robbed a gas station two days earlier.

Police… Audio

The Prime Minister visited the Bay of Plenty on Tuesday to meet workers who have taken up roles in the horticultural sector after losing their jobs due to Covid-19.

Horticulture New Zealand says 2000… Audio

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

All people arriving at the border will now have to be tested for Covid-19 - not only to detect the virus but also to start tracking which countries are going to be the most high risk.

New arrivals… Audio

The controversial police Armed Response Teams have been axed for good.

The six month trial in Counties-Manukau, Waikato and Canterbury was fiercely criticised by justice advocates, concerned about a… Video, Audio

First it was Bunnings, now it's Warehouse Stationery closing its doors in Te Awamutu.

Monday's news came as a bolt from the blue for the community with 200 new homes set to be built in the area and… Video, Audio

Questions are being raised around whether The Warehouse Group acted in good faith by taking millions of dollars in Government wage subsidies before announcing at least 1000 jobs could go.

The… Audio

A group of students at an elite Christchurch private school say a teacher tore down posters and verbally abused them for promoting the Black Lives Matter movement.

The students at St Andrew's… Audio

Dunedin City Council today decided to dump unpopular level 2 rules - but only after the government's level 1 announcement rendered them out of date.

The speed limit of the city's main street was… Audio

The Warehouse is shedding around 1,000 jobs in a restructure it says has been accelerated by Covid-19.

The group that also owns Noel Leeming is looking to shut down an additional six stores including… Video, Audio

Staff from Noel Leeming - owned by The Warehouse Group - were looking very glum at the Henderson Clearance Centre today following the announcement of store closures and job losses.

It is one of the… Audio

New Zealand will move to levle 1 at midnight Tuesday morning and in a happy coincidence, on the first day since the outbreak there are no cases of Covid-19.

Usually there's 48 hours notice for a move… Audio

Welfare advocates say the new unemployment benefit for people out of work because of Covid-19 highlights the need for sweeping changes to the current system.

From Monday, people can apply for the new… Audio

Former Māori Party leader Dame Tariana Turia is renewing her call for Oranga Tamariki's chief executive Grainne Moss and the Minister for Children Tracey Martin to resign.

It comes as pressure mounts… Audio

The minister in charge of New Zealand's spy agencies, Andrew Little, is refusing to deny he has signed off on embassy break-ins.

On Sunday he declined an interview on this issue but on Monday… Audio

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has not confirmed or denied having signed off on embassy break-ins while she was in power between 1999 and 2008.

In an interview for The Service, a new RNZ podcast… Video, Audio