Māni Dunlop

Team New Zealand usually makes waves on the water but today it's celebrating setting a wind powered land speed world record.

The high-tech craft - "Horonuku" - reached 222.4 kilometres per hour on… Audio

The Chief Ombudsman heard countless heartbreaking stories in his review of the managed isolation and quarantine system.

The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment points out that system… Audio

Roughly three million bottles worth of plastic are wafting onto Auckland each year.

That's 74-tonnes.

Scientists are finding microplastics everywhere - on the peaks of the highest mountains, to the… Audio

The Human Rights Commission has detailed more evidence of RSE workers being exploited.

The Government is in the early stages of reviewing the scheme - but the issues described are not new, and amount… Audio

Stories of heartbreak dominated the Chief Ombudsman's review into the Managed Isolation and Quarantine or MIQ system.

The Chief Ombudsman says the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's… Audio

A Phase One clinical trial has provided promising results for an HIV vaccine.

International researchers say the vaccine, which is being tested in humans, helps create antibodies which can recognise… Audio

Women's groups are calling on the organisers of the Rhythm and Vines music festival to drop UK artist Dizzee Rascal over a domestic violence conviction.

The rapper, whose real name is Dylan Mills… Audio

Police are looking for four people responsible for a ram-raid at a Gun City store in Christchurch.

Police say they used a vehicle to break into the Cranford Street shop at 3.20am.

RNZ reporter Anna… Audio

A child advocacy group is underwhelmed by an independent report into the death of Malachi Subecz, saying it is not aspirational and minimises the urgent call to action.

Dame Karen Poutasi released… Audio

The government is revisiting how and if rongoā Māori - or traditional Māori medicine - is being incorporated and protected in legislation which aims to regulate natural medicine.

The Therapeutic… Audio

Aftershocks are rocking Taupo, after a shallow magnitude 5.6 quake struck nearby just before midnight last night.

It's the largest shake to hit the area since Geonet reported minor unrest at the… Audio

The government is likely to shelve its work on co-governance.

It's part of this country's response on how to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or UNDRIP.

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The first person convicted of sabotage in New Zealand will spend the next three years behind bars.

Some of the suppression orders preventing the publication of details about Graham Philip's actions… Audio

The baby in urgent need of a heart operation is still waiting for a resolution on his parents' request that only blood from unvaccinated people can be used if he needs a transfusion.

A hearing at the… Audio

Countries throughout the Pacific are in Vietnam discussing the future of the world's largest tuna fishery this week.

The 26 members range from small island climate vulnerable states, such as Tuvalu… Audio

A petition to lower the age for bowel cancer screening to 45 years old is being handed over to parliament this lunchhour.

The national screening programme is free for people aged 60 to 74 years old.

The international rules based order and human rights issues were top of the agenda in a bilateral meeting between Finland's prime minister Sanna Marin and our head of government, Jacinda Ardern in… Audio

A 42-year-old woman  has appeared in the Manukau District Court after being extradited from South Korea in connection to the discovery of two dead children in suitcases in South Auckland. 

She… Audio

A full hearing is expected next week regarding the rights of a baby's parents to refuse health treatment.

The baby urgently needs heart surgery, but the parents are insisting that any blood he might… Audio