Sally Murphy

Since our borders shut there have been over 28,000 applications for a border exemption, close to 5000 have been approved but just half over those have have arrived here.

It's largely because people… Audio

The Sustainable Energy Forum says investigating a hydro scheme in an Otago lake doesn't make much sense. The government has announced a 30-million-dollar investigation into options which would make… Audio

Three New Zealand sailors who are at the centre of a repatriation mission to the Falkland Islands have been arrested after a bar-brawl on the island.

A Sanford fishing boat spent 25 days getting to… Audio

New Zealand on Air is calling for an industry standard to vet staff who work around children on TV shows - after it was revealed children's show What Now employed a convicted sex offender. It was… Audio

There are renewed calls for the government to lower it's fresh water nitrogen limit after new tests show high amounts of pollution in Canterbury water.

Forest and Bird obtained test results through… Audio

New test results show multiple Canterbury Council's have recorded high levels of nitrates in the water. The results provided to Forest and Bird under The Official Information Act show 19 testing sites… Audio

The general manager of a Queenstown tourism company says he and his staff are devastated after a rafter was swept away and died. The man was one of a group of six Australians whose raft overturned in… Audio

Veteran activist Penny Bright says she will likely end up compromising with Auckland Council over the forced sale of her home. Ms Bright owes the council nearly $89,000 in unpaid rates, penalties and… Audio

Two Auckland schools were forced into lockdown this morning as armed police searched for three offenders, one of whom students say was wearing a school blazer. Video, Audio

Tenants have been barred from returning to a central Auckland office building after unexplained fumes caused another evacuation last night. Augusta House on the corner of Victoria St West and Elliot… Audio

Tourism New Zealand says what it's calling an evolution of the 100 percent Pure campaign is not to mitigate bad publicity. The slogan has come under fire in the past for not accurately portraying the… Audio

A group campaigning for an overhaul of the criminal justice system says the latest report into the state of Waikato's aging Waikeria Prison proves it's uninhabitable. The prison - one of the country's… Audio

It will take more than two years and millions of dollars to fix a botched building job at an Auckland high school. Hawkins Construction built Botany Downs Secondary College at a cost of $28 million… Audio

The increasingly inventive concealment methods used by drug smugglers are causing a headache for the government's research institute. The institute of Environmental Science and Research does about… Audio

The Government's calling the new Auckland transport plan New Zealand's "largest ever civil construction programme to create a 21st century transport network". Video, Audio

Jerrim Toms' family want to know if the police who shot him knew the 29-year-old was mentally unwell. Mental Health Foundation CEO Shaun Robinson says police are increasingly being tasked with mental… Audio

The University of Auckland says no books will be burned if proposed library closures go ahead but some may face the shredder. A staff member who helped close down the engineering library over a year… Audio