Susie Ferguson

An investigation into one of the country's largest freight companies has found drivers felt forced into falsifying their logbooks and ditched mandatory rest-times in order to make their runs on time.

The Government has today unveiled more details about its plans to upgrade 24 local hospitals to boost capacity to deal with Covid-19.

The plans include providing around 30 new beds for intensive care… Audio

It's been a restless night for Cantabrians, with torrential rain having caused slips, flooded properties and a handful of evacuations.

More than 100 millimetres of rain has fallen over the past 24… Audio

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing fresh questions over his authority - even his own party is turning against him.

Almost one hundred of his own MPs rebelled against the introduction of… Audio

More information has surfaced about the 6 January storming of the Capitol.

Text messages from former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, have revealed Donald Trump Junior and Fox News hosts… Audio

Survivors of abuse in state and church care say it's now critical the government moves quickly to set up an independent system to compensate them for what they have suffered.

A Royal Commission… Audio

A Christchurch hero has been awarded the country's highest bravery accolade - the New Zealand Cross. On March 15th 2019,

Abdul Aziz and his four sons were attending prayer at the Linwood Islamic… Audio

Wednesday night saw flooding across the Manawatū area, including in-and-around the Makino stream.

There were 80 flood related callouts and two houses were evacuated in Feilding.

A welfare centre was… Audio

Rain eased in Christchurch overnight and council contractors are out and about this morning to assess damage.

Torrential rain caused flooding, closed roads, prompted slip warnings and wastewater… Audio

A controversial attempt to get water from the Ruataniwha Basin in Hawke's Bay is angering some in the community.

Eight farms want to take 15 million cubic metres of water out of the local aquifer for… Audio

Twenty-three of the country's mayors are headed to Wellington to voice their opposition to water reforms.
 
Communities 4 Local Democracy, or He hapori mō te Manapori, is a new local government… Audio

A new funding deal is aiming at nearly 900 new homes for Porirua - the size of an entire suburb.  

It's the first initiative for the Government's Infrastructure Acceleration Fund and has been signed… Audio

National Party leader Christopher Luxon says people have to be held accountable for what he says was unacceptable practices paying inflated rents to private landlords.

A scathing review by the… Audio

Aucklanders are on their way out of the city after the borders opened for the first time in months.

RNZ reporter Chen Liu is at the city's southern border. Audio

Auckland's borders are finally dismantled after more than 120 days of the city being cut off from the rest of the country.

Random spot checks will take the place of borders to ensure travellers are… Audio

As the Auckland exodus begins, the gateway to Northland will still be protected by two checkpoints to ensure those entering the region have the right documents.

Police, with support from iwi, are… Audio