New Zealand

Dangerous staffing levels which are leaving nurses fearing for their patients - this issue came up again and again at today's countrywide strike by DHB nurses.

At least 30,000 DHB nurses went on… Audio

Professor Dave Frame is Director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute at Victoria University.

He says transport emissions are on the way up and we need to be targeting motorists. Video, Audio

The Climate Commission has stressed a need for the country to work harder to significantly reduce emissions - but how it's achieved has divided Parliament.

The commission has released its final… Audio

Warning: This report includes disturbing details of violence that will upset listeners.

Northland woman Bridget Simmonds warned she would soon die just before she went missing.

The 42-year-old… Audio

Pacific and Māori church leaders are stepping up in the battle against Covid-19 vaccine misinformation.

A dozen senior Catholics from around the Wellington region received their first dose of the… Video, Audio

Nurses say they are working harder than ever, and are not getting a fair deal.

At least 30,000 walked off the job today, demanding more pay and safer workplaces.

The strike has been running from… Video, Audio

Actor Robyn Malcolm says she feels like she's in the team of five million's naughty corner after being bailed up by MIQ officials for lighting a candle in her room and displaying one too many bottles… Video, Audio

Three people breached Melbourne's lockdown to travel to Sydney and then on to Auckland.

The Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says the group will have to spend two weeks in managed isolation -… Audio

The government should pay people to send their old petrol cars to the scrap heap, according to the Motor Trade Association.

Transport belches out nearly half of New Zealand's carbon emissions. The… Video, Audio

The Climate Change Commission has urged the government to get tough on the way New Zealanders live and work, in its final advice for reducing emissions, presented to Parliament.

But critics have… Audio

Nurses have taken to the streets around the country demanding more pay and a safer place to work.

They say they were gutted by the government's call to freeze the pay of most public service workers… Video, Audio

The White Ferns captain Sophie Devine is encouraging athletes to think about themselves first and sport second after taking a break from top level cricket.

Having missed the New Zealand team's last… Audio

Warning: Details of this report may distress some listeners.

More than two years after a Northland mother went missing, two men charged over her death have gone on trial.

Bridget Simmonds, 42… Audio

Rallies and picket lines are organised across the country and tomorrow nurses will strike after negotiations with district health boards reached a stalemate.

At least 30,000 nurses will take part in… Audio

The head has been knocked off a drug importing beast. That's the take of a gang expert, after New Zealand police carried out raids across the North Island as part of an international sting led by the… Video, Audio

Kiwi motorsport legend Greg Murphy is getting back behind the wheel to compete at Bathurst.

Seven years after his last spin at Mount Panorama, the four time winner is coming out of retirement for… Audio

There's cautious optimism among Alzheimer's experts here - after the first new treatment for the disease in nearly 20 years was approved by US regulators.

The new drug is supposed to slow the… Audio

National Party MP Paul Goldsmith has little support in his belief colonisation was good for Maori "on balance".

His comments have been called abhorrent and ignorant by other political parties and… Audio

"Widespread abuse" of employment law means tens of thousands of builders may be missing out on their basic employment rights and protections.

The employment court has found in favour of an Auckland… Video, Audio