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New Zealand
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She only got a T-shirt for Christmas. Now she's striking back.
29 Dec 2025"Buy it before my patience fully turns to the Dark Side. May the Force (and better gift ideas) be with you," the listing says.
Dunedin family dominates Cromwell's annual cherry spitting competition
Auckland Harbour Bridge repaint project: Where things stand more than a year later
Pacific
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2025 in review: The year that was in Pacific news
29 Dec 2025RNZ Pacific's bulletin editor Christina Persico looks in the rearview mirror at 2025. Audio
Starlink withdraws satellite services from Papua New Guinea
'I’m excited to give back':Roy Krishna signs for Bula FC
Sport
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Cricket: A first for Amelia Kerr in big Blaze win
29 Dec 2025A stunning century from White Fern Amelia Kerr has helped the Wellington Blaze to a 49-run victory over the Auckland Hearts in the women's Super Smash.
Nick Kyrgios beats Aryna Sabalenka in 'Battle of the Sexes' showdown
Former Phoenix player returns home
Politics
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'Follow through on it' - Group backs plan to tackle transnational organised crime
29 Dec 2025A ministerial advisory group said organised crime was impacting every New Zealander whether they recognised it or not.
Sheep shearing industry, government announce $75,000 animal welfare programme
Where do MPs go, when they go bush?
World
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News of the weird: The strangest stories of 2025
29 Dec 2025There was no shortage of strange news filed by RNZ reporters and our international partners in the past 12 months - here's the year in review.
Brigitte Bardot, the French star you 'had to see to believe'
Mexican train derailment kills at least 13 people, 98 injured
Comment & Analysis
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NZ report card 2025: How we fared in key global and domestic rankings
29 Dec 2025To borrow a phrase from old school reports: Shows great potential but needs to try harder, Alexander Gillespie writes.
JD Vance tries to have it both ways on Nick Fuentes and antisemitism
Parliament's year in numbers
Local Democracy Reporting
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Tourism business ‘extremely distressed’ by road closures
29 Dec 2025A Marlborough Sounds tourism operator says restricted access road closures is leaving them cut off from customers at the start of the peak summer season.
Northland Regional Council zeroes in on rare rates freeze
Get the Wahs! Rotorua dreams of Warriors return after seven-year absence
In Depth
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Integrity probe into Yachting NZ drags into second year
The Sport Integrity Commission's first major investigation, triggered by dozens of complaints about Yachting NZ, remains unfinished a year on.
A permit for trapping feral cats may get much easier to obtain after a U-turn by DOC
Lost in transition: The businesses trapped by New Zealand’s energy crisis
Te Ao Māori
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Māori Land Court cannot rule on Porotī Springs water
25 Dec 2025A long-running effort by hapū trustees to have their customary rights to Porotī Springs legally recognised has hit another hurdle.
Study shows the experience of Māori grappling with 'te reo trauma'
'Our sense of identity': What New Zealand and Georgia have in common
Business
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Gull, NPD merger should bring fuel prices down - AA
The Automobile Association believes a proposed merger between two fuel companies should drive down pump prices.
India free trade agreement excludes dairy, but that could change - minister
Can I travel while getting NZ Super, and other most-asked questions of 2025 - Ask Susan
Country
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Country Life: On the job with Whanganui River's rural postie
Rural postie Tracy Marshall takes visitors along her mail delivery route which winds along the Whanganui River.
Nitrates in water: ECan's rule-making fell short of law over allowing discharges, High Court rules
Country Life: Farming trees the Tāmata Hauhā way
Environment
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DoC warns dog owners after rare fairy tern nests disturbed
23 Dec 2025Only about 40 adult tara iti survive in the wild, and of those just 10 are breeding females.
Water fight: Farmers strive to limit cows' environmental footprint
Climate change could claim nearly all of NZ's glaciers, research shows
Media & Technology
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The best games we played in 2025
16 Dec 2025More than 200 titles dropped this year, here are some we loved playing the most.
It’s not you - some fonts feel different
Tova O'Brien announced as new Breakfast presenter
Identity
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How did we become known as 'Kiwis'?
16 Oct 2024How did residents of Aotearoa New Zealand come to be called by the name of a flightless brown bird? Audio
Turning Palmerston North into the 'capital of drag' in Aotearoa
X-plainer: Who are Generation X?
IndoNZ
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Celebrating Christmas with Indian culinary favourites
25 Dec 2025Kiwi Indians swap ham and pavlova for spiced feasts, keeping festive food traditions from home alive.
2025 in review: A year when New Zealand-India relations took off
Indian community theatre group Prayas marks 20 years on stage