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Coromandel tourism businesses are caught in a perfect storm after battling Covid disruptions.

So far the summer has been hampered by rain, and now one of the peninsula's main tourism highways is out… Video, Audio

It's been a stormy night in the north of the country with thunderstorms peppered parts of Auckland, the Coromandel and Northland.

Coromandel soaked up the most rainfall - about 80 millimetres - while… Audio

A main Coromandel highway is literally cracking, forcing significant travel restrictions with two long holiday weekends looming.

Waka Kotahi is investigating the cause of the signficant fissures on… Video, Audio

The family of a New Zealand man who has been killed while doing aid work in Ukraine say they are very very proud of him, and he helped saved hundreds of people.

Andrew Bagshaw had been helping… Audio

Yeshi Desta came to New Zealand as a refugee more than 20 years ago and loves introducing New Zealanders to the tastes and flavours of eastern Africa. She runs My Mother's Kitchen, whipping up pop-up… Audio

Cyclone Hale may have passed but there is still some danger for swimmers. 

The cyclone caused severe erosion at several beaches around the Coromandel, which damaged dunes and public accessways. 

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Bay of Plenty is another region to have been impacted by the severe weather hitting parts of the northern and eastern North Island over recent weeks - a period when New Zealanders usually flock to the… Audio

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The central and eastern North Island are set for another battering of wind and rain, after an already less-than-spectacular summer.

NIWA forecaster Chris Brandolino and Thames Civil Defence… Audio

Celebrate summer with salads, strawberries and chilled soups.

This winter and spring have had the highest ever recorded rainfall for Whakatane district, and council staff have reported costs of damage to roads and reserves as being over $2.8 million, resulting… Audio

A group of volunteers on Auckland's Hibiscus Coast are banding together to protect endangered birds on their beach.

Dotterels are under constant threat from dogs, hedgehogs, and the elements, but… Video, Audio

Five years ago, a group of six Wellington friends starting talking about the idea of living together in a purpose built co-housing complex. The idea gathered steam, a site was purchased, plans drawn… Audio

Chinese president Xi Jinping says he wants his country's relationship with New Zealand to be taken to a "higher level" in the wake of a meeting with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

The two leaders met… Audio

NATO allies are still trying to establish the facts about a missile which hit eastern Poland, near the Ukranian border, yesterday and killed two Polish people.

Police have blocked access to the… Audio

The Polish President Andrzej Duda says the missile that hit Poland is likely an "accident" from Ukrainian air defences. 

Two people were killed yesterday after a missile landed in eastern Poland near… Audio

Investigations have continued into the cause of the missile strike that killed two people in Poland. 

The missile which landed in eastern Poland is now believed to be a wayward air defence rocket… Audio

To Poland now where the investigation continues into who fired a missile that killed two farmers near the country's border with Ukraine. Just before coming to air, freelance journalist based in… Audio

Taupō District Council is demanding changes to the main road on the eastern side of the lake following a truck rolling off the road on Sunday.

It says warnings to Waka Kotahi about the safety of… Audio

Trucking industry leaders are backing calls of safety improvements to the narrow windy road on the eastern side of Lake Taupō.

A freight truck driver received moderate injuries after crashing and… Audio

New Zealand has had some big ambitions in the Pacific and mixed relations with our neighbours. Video, Audio

Why isn’t New Zealand part of Australia? | The Aotearoa History Show | RNZ

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Marine mammals were a source of food and clothing for Māori and Moriori, and valuable oil for Europeans. Hunting them brought cultures together, made fortunes and cost lives but today it's saving them… Video, Audio

A New Zealand couple held in Iran have escaped the country safe and well after being stuck there for months.

Topher Richwhite and his wife Bridget Thackwray had been unable to leave the Middle… Audio

A former New Zealand solider on the front line in Ukraine says growing numbers of freshly conscripted Russians are being captured or killed within 72 hours of being called up.

The Russian President… Video, Audio