Amy Williams

Fuel importers have confirmed there will be price-hikes at the petrol pump within a week, following the weekend attack on an oil plant in Saudi Arabia.

Global oil prices have jumped by 18 percent… Video, Audio

School nurses are finally being signed off as vaccinators to reach 17,000 or so Auckland high school students who may not have had the MMR jab.

Dozens of nurses are doing their final practical… Audio

High school principals say they're worried about the pressure on students preparing for upcoming national exams amidst an escalating measles outbreak in Auckland.

The number of confirmed cases is… Audio

More than 800 people in Auckland have now caught the measles, with more than 50 schools and a similar number of childcare centres experiencing cases this year.

More than 20 Auckland secondary schools… Audio

Owha the marauding leopard seal is something of a local legend in Auckland's Upper Waitematā Harbour.

The seal has made a wharf and a marina there her home for the last five years.

But much to… Video, Audio

Some historians are concerned New Zealand's public libraries and museums are being priced out of buying national treasures by private investors snapping up items from the country's early history. Video, Audio

Security has been beefed up at caves where moa bones are at risk of being pillaged, as the government moves to make it illegal to trade remains of the extinct bird.

The government plans to consult… Audio

Bank employees on the frontline of lending are coming out of the woodwork to lay complaints about workplace bonus culture.

The union that represents four-thousand bankers, First Union, has had an… Audio

Every Monday morning, a group of kids wait with their parents at the first walking school bus-stop for volunteers to walk them to Birkenhead Primary, on Auckland's North Shore. Walking with them is… Video, Audio

Official documents show fishing companies, including Talleys, threatened legal action against the government over proposed seabed protection in the South Pacific. Audio

Just a week into the official flu season, nearly 1.3 million people have already had the flu vaccine - close to the same number as the whole of last winter. As stocks run low, the vaccines will now… Video, Audio

Parents around the country are taking leave, arranging childcare and planning activities in preparation for tomorrow's school closures, when more than 50,000 teachers walk off the job. Audio

Wasp numbers are increasing dramatically in Auckland and experts are warning the populations could climb higher if they are not controlled. Auckland Council has received more calls from people… Audio

One of the country's most popular tourist attractions, Mt Eden or Maungawhau, is on a list of 69 parks with a high risk of getting Kauri dieback disease, but as yet nothing is in place to protect the… Audio

An Auckland gardening insitution that's been bringing together lovers of horticulture since the 1800s is digging in for a fight with Auckland Council. The council says the central city doesn't have a… Audio