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Pou return to Hastings Civic Square after restoration
20 Jun 2025This is the first full collective check and restoration since their installation.
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Great ride Te Hangāruru opens: ‘A gift to the community for Matariki’
19 Jun 2025It's being hailed as a vital piece of the vision to complete a 320km journey from Ruapehu maunga to the Tasman Sea.
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'We can grow anything here': Taranaki family's growing experiment
20 Jun 2025On their family whenua in north Taranaki, the McClutchies grow different crops and aspire to growing Māori medicinal plants.
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10 winning winter warmers for Matariki weekend
20 Jun 2025When the days are short and cold a comforting and cosy dinner is just the thing. Here are our picks from RNZ's recipe archive.
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Two injured after four cars collide in Auckland
21 Jun 2025Northbound motorists are advised to expect delays on the Southern Motorway near the Highbrook off ramp.
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Police appealing for help to find missing Mosgiel man
Christopher Beaumont, who is 72, has been missing since about 2.45pm.
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'I can always get in': Landlord broke into rental, set up treadmill and TV
21 Jun 2025He was ordered to pay the tenant, who was awarded name suppression, $2000 compensation and $1500 in damages.
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What can you do if your home isn't Healthy Homes compliant?
21 Jun 2025The deadline is looming for landlords, but what can you do if yours hasn't met it?
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'I wouldn't wish it on anyone': Why are victims having to wait until 2027 for justice?
There's a well-known saying that justice delayed is justice denied. And in Northland, where the region is facing a growing number of homicides, the wheels of justice are getting increasingly slow.
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Man charged with arson after house fire in Levin
21 Jun 2025A man has been arrested following a suspicious house fire in Levin.
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Fog forces flight into holding pattern above Hamilton
A Sydney-Hamilton flight was delayed nearly 90 minutes after low visibility caused two go-arounds on approach.
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Youth offending drops with safe, stable housing - study
The study found that 3 years after moving into public housing, alleged offences and court charges among young people reduced by 11.7 percent and 10.9 percent more than the general population.
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Rēkohu celebrates Matariki and the arrival of Puanga
21 Jun 2025On Rēkohu, in the Chatham Islands, traditional practices around Puanga are just one of the traditions being rediscovered.
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Cameras reveal more kiwi than possum on Taranaki range
21 Jun 2025Dozens of cameras installed on the Kaitake Range in Taranaki are revealing the success stemming from five years of intensive predator control.
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One dead, more injured in wave of house fires overnight
21 Jun 2025One person died in a house fire in Marton on Saturday morning, and others were injured in separate blazes.
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Man arrested after woman found dead in Tūrangi
21 Jun 2025Police have made an arrest after a woman was found dead at a property in the central North Island on Friday.
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Nurse jets off to Taylor Swift after defrauding friends
A nurse who took more than $100,000 from three colleagues after claiming her mother had died spent the money on gambling and trips overseas.
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Annual whale and dolphin count underway
21 Jun 2025The Countrywide Whale and Dolphin Count started on Friday and will run through to Sunday.
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Prisoners misbehaving before flight forced to turn around
21 Jun 2025RNZ has obtained a heavily redacted Department of Corrections report into the day, which reveals bad behaviour from some of the women began at the Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility.
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House prices to be '20% lower in 2030s than 2021' - forecast
The housing market is picking up in activity but values are still flat, and that is likely to be the case for some time yet.
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'Very extensively damaged': Auckland supermarket ruins back in owners' hands
18 Jun 2025Foodstuffs North Island's head of property says the pathway to re-opening is unclear.
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It's the shortest day of the year. Here's how that might be affecting your sleep
21 Jun 2025Felt like staying in bed longer this morning? It might be because the shorter days are affecting your circadian rhythm.
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Landlord ordered to pay $9k following illegal storage unit tenancy
A desperate father moved into a storage unit in an industrial zone with his 5yo daughter, paying $430 a week for space with no fresh air or natural light.
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Tai Rāwhiti hapū Ngāti Oneone six weeks into protest seeking land's return
21 Jun 2025An online petition supporting the hapū has over 1950 signatures.
