Stories by Rachel Helyer Donaldson

Some people are worried the money will be use by the government for military purposes.

An Auckland engineering student said her sister texted from Bangkok to say she was stuck in a mall and wasn't sure if she'd survive.

A Health NZ review shows a sharp spike in patients who discharged themselves dying within 30 days of presenting at an ED.

The mayor admits some feel "forgotten" but the plan is needed to provide a "glimmer of hope" in the face of increasingly damaging flooding.

The fatal attack ollowed a break-in at a Darlington Road house just 20 minutes earlier, down the road from where Abdul Nabizadah was found.

On Friday the Public Service Association (PSA) lodged a pay equity claim for library assistants with the Employment Relations Authority, after the stalling of a claim lodged with six councils in 2019.

The NZDF have put its team specialising in preventing and responding to sexual offences on notice as part of consultation on cost cutting.

It opened in 1925 as a rest and recuperation centre for sick children.

Green MP Teanau Tuiono says Pacific people have been asking for visa-free travel for some time.

More than 200,000 New Zealanders are in Queensland, so RNZ have asked some to share what they've seen during Cyclone Alfred.

Dozens of protesters wearing Man Up t-shirts have met the start of the Wellington Pride parade, performing a haka.

Some are milking once-a-day and sending stock to the works early.

Greenpeace had offered to survey the site for free, using deep sea cameras during an already planned expedition to survey seamounts and other underwater mountains, but the New Zealand government…

While the Minister of Education Erica Stanford said difficult decisions would need to be made, she said the government was not looking to defund expert teachers who support literacy or te reo Māori.

A metal statue of the iconic jedi master was stolen from a Madras Street property in the Wellington suburb of Khandallah on Tuesday night.

Hundreds of engineers are losing their jobs and leaving our shores due to infrastructure project delays, creating "significant" risk to our nation's development, says the head of New Zealand's…

A hīkoi has been held in Whakatāne to protest the closure of the area's obstetrics unit, 'chronic understaffing, poor management and a dysfunctional health system'. Audio

A research firm says plummeting sales in New Zealand have nothing to do with its chief executive's polarising views - but some local graffiti shows a different view. Audio

A Christchurch man who lost 55 relatives in three Israeli airstrikes on Gaza says his remaining family will never leave, despite a US proposal to remove them. Audio

The Regional Council is warning that the current La Nina weather pattern along with climate change could lead to further restrictions on how much water can be taken from rivers in the area.

Otago University professor of international relations Robert Patman says New Zealand should provide a robust response to Donald Trump's Gaza plan, and also "should stop tip-toeing" around Trump.

A three-year, $1.4m project aims to address inequities experienced by Māori and Pacific people with type 1 diabetes.

The father of one of the two children who went missing from the Mt Eden BestStart said in a message viewed by RNZ that it was a "catastrophic failure of duty" and he was not reassured by BestStart's…

The pool could see out another 60 years with the right upgrade, councillor says - but its future is uncertain.

New Zealand did have the largest decline in GDP in the developed world last year, but one economist says "it's important to keep things in perspective".