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The woman says she was not aware he was smoking and was assaulted when she found out and confronted him.

A look back at the major news stories out of the region in 2024.

Chess great Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after initially quitting following a decision to bar him from a round for wearing jeans.

"Everyone associates the Cook Islands with New Zealand", so a Cooks vessel possibly aiding Russia's shadow fleet isn't ideal, international law professor Al Gillespie says.

The seven day rolling average of new cases down 165.

Key events from the Georgia Democrat's time in office from 1977 to 1981.

Analysis - Few of the Windsor clan would have anticipated the challenges they'd have to face in the infancy of King Charles III's reign.

This Kiwi mayor was thrilled when the president-elect won the US elections: "It's great because it's the end of woke."

A hīkoi, a haka, and the rise of a new generation - RNZ unpacks a contentious and momentous year for Māoridom.

RNZ's Te Manu Korihi team looks back at the moments that shook te ao Māori in 2024.

Asians and Pacific people are seeing the biggest ethnic pay gaps in the public sector, according to the latest pay gap data.

Wallingford Homestead in Central Hawke's Bay was once a bustling base for the local farming community. These days it's helping bridge the urban-rural divide and provides employment opportunities for…

A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska's common murre population, marking the largest recorded die-off of a single species in modern history, research has found.

"The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party's leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you…

How did residents of Aotearoa New Zealand come to be called by the name of a flightless brown bird? Audio

The Indian community overtook the Chinese population to become the third-largest ethnic group in New Zealand.

一系列刑事案件、公交安全事件引发的关注和热度，甚至超过在国会中发生的里程碑事件，及商业领域的成功。