Te Aniwa Hurihanganui

Heavy rain over New Years created cherries so juicy that many of them burst.

Cherry growers think about half of the crop has been affected, meaning they are no longer fit for export.

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A Child advocacy group is calling for changes to the law to make it mandatory for anyone who works with children to be vetted by police.

Currently vetting is not compulsory unless the organisation… Audio

A former prison staffer says he feels ashamed to ever have worked for the Department of Corrections.

Corrections has come under fire recently for its treatment of prisoners since the Waikeria… Audio

The Government's been told it needs to take emergency measures to build new homes amid the severe shortage of property.

There are also calls for new policy settings to help cool the country's thirst… Audio

The Government's been told it needs to take emergency measures to build new homes amid the severe shortage of property.

There are also calls for new policy settings to help cool the country's thirst… Audio

A former Worksafe inspector says workers at airports, ports and MIQ facilities are far too relaxed about the prospect of Covid-19 getting into the community.

Opposition parties say the government has… Audio

The impeachment charge against Mr Trump comes as the Republican party faces questions about its future.

In addition to last week's unprecedented riot at the Capitol building which has left… Audio

Democrats have begun an attempt to remove President Donald Trump from office.

A resolution to impeach President Trump again was formally introduced by Democrats in the House of Representatives this… Audio

With just days to go until the start of yachting's Prada Cup, the number of super yachts visiting New Zealand is still well-down on what was expected, due to Covid. But the Royal New Zealand yacht… Audio

Health authorities in Australia have increased the amount of time overseas arrivals must spend in hotel quarantine in case the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 makes people infectious for… Audio

Pauanui Beach in the Coromandel closed for a period on both Saturday and Sunday, after reports of shark sightings. A woman was fatally attacked by a shark while swimming at Waihi Beach -- about 70… Audio

Some rural communities fear the phasing out of cheques this year is coming too fast, too soon. They say reliable internet must come first before they rip up their chequebooks. RNZ's Tom Kitchin… Audio

New car sales were down by more than a fifth in 2020. And while that's a little better than the Motor Industry Association anticipated last May, when it thought sales would be down by about a third… Audio

Eleven people died on New Zealand's roads between Christmas Eve and January the 5th, in what was one of the country's bloodiest holiday road tolls. And the head of the Road Transport Forum says the… Audio

A second Republican senator has called for the US President Donald Trump to resign following the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters last week.

Senator Pat Toomey, a conservative supporter of… Audio

Searchers have located the black boxes of a plane that went down off the coast of Indonesia at the weekend. There were 62 passengers and crew aboard the 26-year old Boeing 737-500 which was flown by… Audio

Nurses working at managed isolation facilities across the country have raised concerns about staff shortages and instability. These problems were formally recognised in an audit by the Ministry of… Audio

New Zealand's managed isolation facilities now house both the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 and a new strain associated with South Africa. Almost a quarter of the country's live cases… Audio

The Reserve Bank is urgently responding to a breach of one of its data systems. A third-party file service the bank used to store some sensitive information was hacked -- although the bank didn't say… Audio