Stories by Andrew McRae

A child advocacy group is calling for changes to the law to make it mandatory for anyone who works with children to be vetted by police.

The Department of Conservation is considering restricting the number of people who can enter popular national parks at peak times.

A campaign to encourage visitors to respect the special values of Tongariro National Park and the maunga has been launched by iwi and the Department of Conservation.

The Coromandel community of Whitianga is gearing up to fight for the return of practical driving tests in the town.

Jetskiers risk a $200 fine if they break the rules, which includes a maximum of five knots within 200 metres of shore, a structure or dive flag.

RNZ put a number of questions to members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests to get their thoughts on The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care.

A group representing some survivors of abuse claims the estimated number of people abused while in care is well off the mark.

Large gaps in the collection of data mean it will be impossible to determine the precise number of people abused, the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care says.

It has been estimated that up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in state and faith-based care between 1950 and 2019. Audio

A pioneering treatment for kidney cancer using radiation has been described as potentially lifesaving.

The Salvation Army has made an unreserved apology to people who suffered from abuse as children while in its care.

A man who was abused in both state and church-based care says pent-up frustration over what happened to him prompted him to stab a convicted paedophile in prison.

A woman sexually abused by her foster father for many years says she was abandoned by Anglican Social Services which placed her in care.

A former Dilworth School boarding student has told the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care he was groomed by the school's chaplain, and beaten by older students.

A man has presented a harrowing testimony of being terrified as a boy for every day of school through two years, at the Abuse in Care inquiry.

Witnesses at the Abuse in Care Royal Commission have recounted gruelling memories of being abused while in the care of churches.

A woman who was sexually abused and raped by a Catholic priest says the response from the church to her complaint was insulting and laughable.

A man abused while at a Catholic boarding school in the early 1950s says he is not convinced the church's approach to dealing with abuse has changed at all.

The family of a man abused over a four-year period while he was at a Catholic school in the 1950s have fulfilled his wish and spoken on his behalf to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in…

Frances Tagaloa, 52, wants transformational change in the way the Catholic Church deals with abuse including voluntary celibacy, changes to confession, and more training for priests.

A group representing survivors of abuse while in faith-based care believes victims could die before there is any satisfactory resolution to their claims against churches.

A man who was in both faith-based and state care wants the public to wake up to historical abuse and be concerned that it could still be happening.

The government says early reforms brought in to improve emergency management are proving their worth as borne out in the Napier flooding this week.

KiwiRail is trying to come up with ways to get more freight moving around the North Island.

Survivors of abuse in state care are bitterly disappointed the Solicitor-General hasn't apologised for the way Crown lawyers treated them during lengthy court battles over compensation.