Lisa Owen

NZ First plans to review the way it handles donations. The move follows news the Serious Fraud Office is investigating the NZ First Foundation, after the Electoral Commission concluded donations to it… Video, Audio

The Prime Minister has made it clear she will fight to keep RNZ Concert on an FM frequency.

Jacinda Ardern says she's frustrated RNZ pushed ahead with announcing proposed changes to RNZ Concert, when… Audio

The Prime Minister has made it clear she will fight to keep RNZ Concert on an FM frequency.

Jacinda Ardern says she's frustrated RNZ pushed ahead with announcing proposed changes to RNZ Concert, when… Audio

Taika Waititi has won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his World War Two comedy Jojo Rabbit.

The film was nominated for six awards in total, but has so far missed out on Best… Audio

Meanwhile, health authorities here are urging several thousand New Zealanders who've recently returned from China to register with a new helpline if they're in self-imposed quarantine.

The Ministry… Audio

Food delivered outside your door, fresh towels if you're lucky, but no clean sheets, and only short bursts of fresh air.

For nearly 4,000 people aboard the Diamond Princess, this is no cruise.

… Video, Audio

New Zealand airline pilots are worried about the safety of Auckland Airport's main runway, with reports of 30 centimetre chunks of concrete coming loose where planes land.

A number of flights were… Audio

The government has set its sights on cutting carbon emissions in the state sector but admits it has no real information on what impact its own agencies are having on the environment.

Figures released… Video, Audio

A Mongrel Mob member found guilty of murder yelled "I didn't do that" and "I've been framed" at his sentencing in court on Friday.

Warren Pay was found guilty of murdering 29-year-old Faapaia… Audio

More than 3,700 passengers remain in quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship now docked at Yokohama.

More than 60 passengers have now been diagnosed with the coronovirus including one New… Video, Audio

And while the mop-up is underway for residents in Mataura, locals are rallying together to muck in and help.

RNZ reporter Sarah Robson put her gumboots on and went to check out how it's going. Audio

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

Desperate and stressful - that's how water companies in Auckland are describing severe shortages crippling some families on tank supplies.

There are a limited number of refill pumps for water… Audio

The clean up is underway in Southland after days of flooding and some people are just starting to understand the extent of damage to their homes and towns.

Authorities in Southland say up to 30 homes… Audio

The broadcasting minister is adamant that RNZ National will remain commercial-free under any new media set-up with TVNZ.

Kris Faafoi confirmed that work will begin on a business case for creating a… Video, Audio

It's been a day of limbo for people at evacuation centres in Gore. Hundreds of households were forced to move to higher ground, or seek shelter at four community centres, as the Mataura RIver lapped… Audio

Thousands of live crayfish caught in New Zealand could be released back into the wild due to trade disruptions with China.

Between 150 to 180 tonnes of live rock lobster are stuck in pots and tanks… Audio

At Auckland Airport the Air New Zealand plane carrying nearly 200 people who were stranded in Wuhan has touched down.

The flight picked up 190 people from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak.

RNZ Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown is at a cordon just south of Mataura, which is about halfway between Gore and Invercargill.

Residents there have heightened fears about the possibility of a… Audio

Hawke's Bay fruit and vegetable growers say they'll be hit hard by a ban on taking water from two rivers, as levels drop in hot, dry weather.

The ban on the Tukituki and Waipawa rivers and streams… Audio