Lisa Owen

A person is dead after a yacht sank off the Northland coast on Monday afternoon.

Police say a mayday call was received shortly after midday after the 47-foot sloop got into trouble in bad weather… Audio

The whānau of a man shot and killed by police in Thames in 2015 say they were let down by both the mental health service and police.

Thirty-year old Vaughan Te Moananui, who had mental health issues… Audio

The All Blacks will take on Ireland in this weekend's Rugby World Cup quarter-finals after Japan beat Scotland last night to qualify top of pool A and set up a showdown with South Africa.

England… Video, Audio

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

Sky Television has secured crucial rugby broadcast rights, in a move likely to shore up its sports war-chest after hemorrhaging cricket and the Rugby World Cup to rival Spark.

Sky will keep the… Video, Audio

Student halls of residence will be bound by a mandatory code of practice following the death of a 19-year-old whose body lay undiscovered for weeks in his room at a Christchurch student hostel.

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Two long-term contraceptives which currently cost hundreds of dollars will now be fully funded by the government - a change being described as 'life-changing' for some women.

Pharmac has announced it… Video, Audio

Cabinet Minister Shane Jones has stumbled into a new faux pas - with photos emerging of him on holiday using a semi-automatic gun banned in New Zealand in the wake of the mosque attacks.

The New… Video, Audio

Raetihi locals are worried their small central North Island settlement will turn into a ghost town if the lifeline State Highway 4 isn't fixed quickly.

The road has been shut off for most of the… Video, Audio

A gun control advocate says the proposed new laws aren't up to scratch in dealing with improvised firearms.

Two people were killed in an anti-Semitic terror attack in Germany on Wednesday, after the… Audio

A campaigner against wrongful convictions and former Canadian justice official says jailhouse informants are among the most dangerous of witnesses and NZ should consider tightening its rules around… Video, Audio

Nearly two years after several Destiny Church branches were supposedly stripped of their charitable status, they are still operating without paying tax. Video, Audio

Dunedin students say the flat party culture, has grown in response to Otago University acting as the fun police and clamping down on student pubs and bars.

But a leading preventive medicine… Video, Audio

A man who acted as a lookout during a violent dairy robbery in Auckland has been sentenced to 14 years in jail.

Ngatama Kaienua never entered the dairy, but kept watch, as a teenager stabbed two shop… Video, Audio

The premature anointing of Christopher Luxon as a National Party candidate could yet prove problematic for the party's leader Simon Bridges.

The former Air New Zealand boss has yet to get the formal… Video, Audio

An Oncologist says New Zealand owes Southland man Blair Vining a debt of gratitude for the precious time he spent campaigning for a better health system.

Blair died on Friday morning. The father of… Video, Audio

Tensions are rising in Tokyo as the effect of Typhoon Hagibis hits home for Rugby World Cup players and officials.

With their slim quarterfinal hopes squashed by the cancellation of tomorrow's match… Audio

The government has proposed a raft of changes to building laws to make it easier for prefab homes to be produced on mass, in a bid to address the housing crisis.

The building and construction… Video, Audio

Poor facilities and under-resourcing at Palmerston North Hospital left a nurse in tears daily, ultimately leading her to resign.

Her claims are being backed by the Nurses Organisation who says the… Audio