Lisa Owen

Auckland Council's sending enforcement officers out to the Waitakere and Hunua Ranges this summer to catch any law flouters who use closed tracks and risk spreading the deadly Kauri dieback disease.

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National has revealed it would expect judges to hand out tougher sentences if it's in power, even though the judiciary is independent and should not be swayed by the government.

Among the party's law… Video, Audio

A protest aboard an oil drilling ship at the Port of Timaru has come to an end, with police forced to build a scaffolding tower to arrest the remaining protestors.

The Greenpeace protest began early… Video, Audio

A Pasifika woman now living in Flaxmere in Hawke's Bay is thankful she's escaped a mouldy and damp nightmare rental property that was meant to be her first slice of kiwi paradise.

Tala-lelei Hefa… Video, Audio

The Health Minister has called out the Hepatitis Foundation over extravagant expenses and gross mismanagement, saying it's unacceptable.

The regulator, Charities Services, completed its investigation… Audio

Secondary school principals around New Zealand are increasingly worried by delays to regulate the vaping industry.

More than 60 health, community and school organisations have written an open letter… Audio

The government's sending a warning to motorists with faulty airbags - if you don't get them fixed, you won't be getting a warrant of fitness.

The Takata Alpha airbags have caused injuries and… Audio

New Zealand Cricket says if it finds the person accused of racially abusing English paceman Jofra Archer, it will refer them to the police and ban them for life.

The 24-year-old bowler says he was… Audio

Samoa's measles epidemic has killed 32 people. It's the second day in a row the death toll has increased - all but four of the deaths are children under the age of four.

And a mass vaccination… Video, Audio

The National Party has put gangs squarely in its crosshairs, proposing that an elite police team be set up - modelled on Australia's 'Strike Force Raptor' unit.

The idea is one of series of proposals… Audio

A jogger repeatedly smashed in the head by a serial attacker preying on lone women says she felt pure terror as the man punched her.

The woman was out for a late afternoon run on a walkway on… Video, Audio

It's not your typical lego creation. One by one giant spray-painted lego heads have been popping up, brightening a boring concrete retaining wall near the Lower Hutt suburb of Wainuiomata.

The artist… Video, Audio

Residents in northern NSW are again on alert as the massive Myall Creek fire between Coffs Harbour and Byron Bay has today been raised to Emergency Alert level.

There's 67 bush & grass fires still… Video, Audio

A coalition of NGOs is demanding the Government make urgent changes to the way relationships are treated in the welfare system.

It comes as at least one beneficiary claims she was forced to lie to… Audio

Around 20 motorcycles rode onto the Parliament forecourt on Monday afternoon, in an event marking White Ribbon Day.

Over the past week the White Ribbon Riders have driven across the country, in an… Audio

A curly question in last week's NCEA Level 2 maths exam has prompted dozens of complaints, with a university maths professor saying those who put the test together 'messed up'.

The question asked… Video, Audio

Greenpeace protestors are still holding up a oil drilling vessel in Timaru and have no plans for leaving.

They arrived early yesterday morning to stop the vessel, owned by OMV, from leaving the… Video, Audio

Farmers have until next winter to clean up their act when it comes to winter grazing, or face beefed up regulations.

It follows the release of a damning report by a government appointed taskforce… Audio

The Blackcaps have beaten England by an innings and 65 runs in the first test at Mt Maunganui.

The agonising 'Super Over' draws in recent ODI and T20 games have finally been overcome with New… Video, Audio