Jordan Bond

An Auckland property manager is delighted she will be able to get out of providing emergency housing to homeless families.

The Government has announced it'll spend $300 million on homelessness… Audio

The sodden clean up in Southland gets underway in earnest this week, as the remnants of floodwater slowly disappears and the full extent of the damage is revealed.

Jordan Bond reports. Audio

A military training base in north Auckland is being turned into a quarantine centre for New Zealanders returning from Wuhan which is in lockdown because the Novel Coronavirus.

Dozens of people will… Audio

An Auckland mother who is stuck in lock down a few hours away from the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak in China is in the dark about whether she can be evacuated home.

The Government says its… Audio

The New Zealand and Australian governments have announced plans to evacuate foreign nationals trapped in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak began. Audio

A mother who lost her first daughter at six days old says her baby wouldn't have died if hospital staff had acted more quickly.

Ruth and Kazu Toyoshima's girl Ellie died in mid-2016, after she was… Audio

A mother whose baby died in 2016 because of substandard care during labour at Hutt Hospital says her daughter Ellie would have lived if staff had acted more quickly.

A Health and Disability… Audio

Health authorities have now increased their presence at the border to try stop the Coronavirus getting in here, but a public health specialist warns it's more likely than not to eventually arrive in… Audio

The northernmost two kilometres of State Highway One is closed this morning after a fire yesterday afternoon burned through more than a hectare of scrub before being brought under control.

The fire… Audio

The "heart" of a small Northland community has been devastated by fire overnight. .

All that remains of the Upper Wairoa Memorial Complex is a pile of smouldering ruins, after the building went up in… Audio

A woman with stage four breast cancer has received news that made her dance around the living room - the life extending drug she's been campaigning for will likely be funded by Pharmac.

The… Audio

A "nationally critical" 10-metre long Bryde's whale died this morning after becoming stranded on a Northland beach. Plans were being made to refloat the tonnes-heavy whale at high tide in the early… Audio

Members of the public have offered to donate their own skin to help severely burnt victims of the Whakaari/White Island eruption.

Hospitals here and in Australia have required record amounts of skin… Audio

Families of victims of the Whakaari/White Island eruption are preparing to mark a month since the devastating blast that took the lives of 19 people.

Twenty-five others are still in hospital here and… Audio

The New Zealand government is keeping a close eye on our troops in Iraq but has not yet said whether it'll pull the last ones out earlier than planned. The Iraqi parliament has passed a non-binding… Audio

Raw sewage is still flowing into Wellington Harbour - and people are being told to stay well away from the water.

Parts of Willis, Ghuznee and Vivian streets are being closed to traffic because of… Audio

Auckland bus commuters could be in for a free ride next week as striking bus drivers refuse to accept payments.

The free fares will affect around half of Auckland's bus routes, after members of the… Audio

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has apologised "wholeheartedly" to the families of the 257 people lost in the Erebus disaster for the first time, in a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the… Video, Audio

Out goes a bank and in comes a diva, the ASB Theatre in Auckland's Aotea Centre is now officially the Kiri te Kanawa Theatre.

Dame Kiri was among the guests at a cultural blessing service that's was… Audio