Lisa Owen

Barriers and sand bags are going up in Wanaka as residents and council staff brace for flooding.

Gradually rising water levels are yet to reach the main street, but locals say it's only a matter of… Video, Audio

More pressure is being heaped on Pharmac over its brand switch of epilepsy drugs.

The Chief Coroner has announced she is launching an investigation into four deaths linked to Logem - a brand of… Video, Audio

Two days of national shut-down in Samoa are coming to a close and over 100 vaccination vans are returning to Apia - many from remote villages.

Almost everyone has been staying at home, under… Video, Audio

He was 'stupid and dumb'. Cabinet Minister Kris Faafoi has refused to resign but he has said sorry to the Prime Minister on Friday afternoon over his poor handling of a family friend's immigration… Audio

The Pike River recovery team expects to break the main seal and push further into the mine by Christmas if all goes according to plan.

WorkSafe has signed off on an exemption that will allow the next… Video, Audio

The Chief Censor is concerned about the rise in popularity of simulated incest porn online and videos with non-consensual behaviour.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification has released a… Audio

The Commerce Commission has confirmed what many drivers already suspected: they're probably paying too much at the petrol pump.

The competition watchdog says the big fuel companies' stranglehold over… Video, Audio

Returning to Samoa now where just 5,000 people were vaccinated today as the medical teams raced against time to vaccinate the country's population against measles.

People were told to stay at home on… Video, Audio

An experienced hiker who was swept almost to his death in a Tasman river, says it's the closest call he's ever had in the outdoors.

Chris Muse, an outdoor guide in Alaska, was walking the South… Video, Audio

Many Ngāpuhi leaders are doubtful the Crown's renewed effort to get its Treaty settlement back on track will work, and are furious they've been given just days notice before an open hui about a way… Video, Audio

The woman known as the "Black Widow" has won the right to have body samples of her dead husband released so they can be re-tested.

Helen Milner was jailed for life in 2014 and ordered to spend at… Audio

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

The Reserve Bank is going ahead with a plan to make banks hold significantly more capital to back their loans.

The decision is estimated to cost the banks $20 billion and is expected to increase… Audio

Pharmac-funded research into whether people with epilepsy were imagining side effects from a medicine brand change has been suspended after four deaths were linked to the switch.

The research… Video, Audio

The government is promising to push through new laws to help force down the price of petrol by mid next year.

A final report by the Commerce Commission into the retail fuel market has found industry… Video, Audio

Samoa went into shutdown today as the death toll from the measles epidemic climbed to 62 and a two-day door to door vaccination campaign got underway.

People were told to stay at home today between… Video, Audio

Flint, the conservation dog who spent 36 hours alone, muzzled on a subantarctic island, has been reunited with his owner.

The small Jack Russell-Fox Terrier cross was preparing to leave Campbell… Audio

Firefighters are still battling a big blaze in an industrial area of South Auckland. Fire and Emergency says the fire broke out at a furniture removers, and 22 fire trucks are at a warehouse on Inlet… Audio

A Hawke's Bay avocado grower is in disbelief after 50 trees were completely stripped of their fruit.

It comes as the Avocado Association is warning growers to keep a closer watch over their crops… Audio

The driver of a truck that slammed into a campervan killing two tourists a decade ago has accused the police of washing away evidence that would prove a mechanical fault caused the crash.

A second… Audio