Former police detectives say a secret meeting between a Justice official and a murder witness raises questions about the prosecution of Ross Appelgren for the 1985 killing of fellow prisoner, Darcy Te ...

The Silver Ferns tipped off their Northern Tour with a comfortable 63-41 win over Scotland in Glasgow. New Zealand won all ...

The government has released a new multi-ministry action plan to fight what it describes as the scourge of methamphetamine. Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith spoke to Corin Dann.

On Saturday, 150 competitors lined up to see how many laps of the 6.7 kilometre loop alongside the Arrow River they could ...

A wall of smoke from the Tongariro National Park fire is providing a spectacular but worrying vista for a central plateau village. The blaze has burned through up to 2500 hectares and is 20 percent ...

An early morning Rural update from Gianina Schwanecke.

The Philippines is being battered by a powerful typhoon, for the second time in just a week. Philippines Bureau Chief at Reuters, Karen Lema spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

A mental health worker was strangled by a patient a day after their colleagues pleaded for extra staff, but Health New Zealand has rejected the idea that short-staffing played any part in the incident ...

On today's First Up pod: the huge fire at Tongariro National Park has been described as 'ecological devastation', we hear from a local ecologist about what's been lost in the blaze; we get the latest ...

A second typhoon in a week has made landfall in the Philippines and killed at least two people, with nearly 1 million ...

Recent stories from.; RNZ Pacific News at 9am for 8 November 2025; RNZ Pacific News at 7am for 8 November 2025; R ...

In its annual report the Education Review Office criticised the lack of support for under-performing schools and called for ...