Lisa Owen

Te Ao Māori is in mourning for one of its unsung heroes. The Ngāti Hine elder, Pita Paraone, died early on Monday morning in Auckland Hospital.

The 73-year-old served for many years as a public… Video, Audio

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

The Māori Council has described the latest suicide statistics as a 'rolling train wreck'. The figures were released officially late on Monday afternoon after the Council broke the Chief Coroner's… Video, Audio

More than a month after their audacious Netball World Cup triumph, the Silver Ferns finally got to share their success with the New Zealand public.

The team were welcomed with a reception at… Video, Audio

Grey Power is branding the National Party's promise to raise the pension age to 67 if elected into Government as ridiculous.

It's something that former Prime Minister and National Leader John Key… Video, Audio

Grey Power is branding the National Party's promise to raise the pension age to 67 if elected into government as ridiculous.

It's something that former Prime Minister and National Leader John Key… Audio

Suicide rates have risen yet again - with 685 people dying by suicide in the past year - that's 17 more lives lost.

The number of Māori taking their own lives has increased 19 percent on the year… Video, Audio

"A pair of walkers, one casual, and two pairs of dress shoes..."

Four is all you need according to 'sole' sister Sally Summers, who will celebrate 70 years on the shop floor at Saunders Shoes in… Video, Audio

The ambassador of Ukraine has vowed to track down anyone distributing the accused Christchurch gunman's manifesto and prosecute them.

A neo-Nazi in Ukraine is reproducing the document in paperback… Video, Audio

A Rotorua farmer reckons he is the proud owner of the ugliest lamb he has ever seen.

One of a set of triplets - the lamb is woolless, basically bald - and a genetic rarity.

There will be no woolly… Video, Audio

A plan for a green corridor cutting though Christchurch's red zone all the way to the coast has been given the green light.

Dubbed the Greenprint, the plan supports the regeneration of the Otākaro… Video, Audio

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

People in northern parts of the country could be in for a wild night, with strong winds, heavy rain and thunderstorms predicted.

MetService has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Northland… Audio

A group of students, including some Youth MPs, have been banned from Parliament for a year, after singing a waiata in the public gallery in support of the Ihumātao hikoi.

A dozen or so protestors… Video, Audio

Iwi in the Far North have renewed calls for the speed limit outside Mahimaru Marae to be slashed in half, after a car crashed into the marae ātea - taking out two palm trees and a power pole.

Ngāi… Audio

A court has heard a man accused of murdering a Northland toddler looked "like a rabbit in the headlights" after the girl died.

Aaron Archer is on trial in the High Court in Auckland - accused of… Audio

The Earthquake Commission has settled with a Christchurch homeowner, just days before their test case was due to be heard at the High Court.

Jamie Gibling used his KiwiSaver to buy his first family… Video, Audio

A rough sleeper in Hawera has unwittingly found himself front and centre of the South Taranaki mayoralty race.

Mayoral aspirant Craig Baylis says if he has his way the man known to most locals simply… Audio

The first people to dive down to the Titanic in 14 years say some of the wreck is deteriorating rapidly - eaten away by salt water and bacteria.

Over the course of five submersible dives, an… Audio

Hundreds of thousands of people, and billions of dollars of property in New Zealand are now deemed to be at risk from flooded rivers and rising seas.

The details are contained in two reports released… Audio