Stories by Rachel Graham

A Christchurch woman says she is horrified that addictive nicotine pouches are being given away to young people via social media.

New Zealand is being warned it is heading toward a tragedy if more is not invested in council infrastructure, and that double-digit rates increases should be expected.

A new WHO report shows there are now four countries who have met all of its anti-smoking best practice measures. Not New Zealand though - we fall short because of the promotion of vaping.

The missing real estate agent was due to show the property to a prospective buyer when she disappeared last week.

It's more than 20 years since a community garden began helping Canterbury University students grow vegetables.

Queen Elizabeth II was patron to five New Zealand organisations, including groups which covered her lifelong interests in horse racing and the armed forces.

A group in Christchurch is plotting a revolution against throwaway culture and wants to help people fix their broken belongings.

Residents in Ladbrooks, a seven-minute drive from the edge of suburban Christchurch, say living in a cellphone coverage blackspot is annoying and dangerous.

The coroner's inquest into the mosque terror attacks will look into the role of social media in the killer's radicalisation, and the emergency response on the day.

RNZCGP is calling for more medical students to be trained up as GPs and warns the wider health system will bear the brunt of the pain if people cannot get to a GP in timely fashion.

Despite no cases of Covid-19 in the entire South Island, it will stay in level 4 lockdown until Tuesday. But many Kiwis south of the Cook Strait are taking it in their stride.

Dunedin City Council has lifted the do not drink notice in Waikouaiti, Karitane and Hawksbury Village, almost six months after it was imposed.

A week ago Brittnay Beddoes had never heard of RSV, but now she knows too well how terrifying it can be.

Twenty-nine schools which were offered the government's funded lunch in schools programme turned down the free food.

A Ngāi Tahu organisation is hiring 10 young people to train up as future leaders and problem solvers.

Three RNZ reporters working in Christchurch on 22 February 2011 tell of their experiences on the day the earthquake hit, in part one Rachel Graham explains how she was mid-interview when the studio…

Palmerston North is the only city having a free public fireworks display on Guy Fawkes night, 5 November, this year, with many other locations dropping them all together, or holding paid events on…

Domestic cats in Kaikōura are laying waste to the eggs of a rare shore bird, the banded dotterel.

A former Canterbury DHB member, who went on to set up Canterbury's Charity Hospital, says the injection of $180 million to wipe the board's deficit will not solve the board's deeper problems.

Some of Christchurch's earthquake damaged red-zone land is another step closer to having some long-term decisions made about its future.

The Director General of Health was greeted by hundreds of protesters this morning when he arrived at a meeting with the beleaguered Canterbury District Health Board.

The niece of a man killed in the Christchurch mosque attacks says attending the sentencing of the killer will be an important part of the grieving process.

Police officers have been instructed not to leave keys in unoccupied cars after an incident in Southland in which a patrol car and two Glock pistols were stolen.

A Christchurch residents' group is calling on the council to dump the regeneration group currently tasked with the job of revamping their local shopping area.

The murder of pregnant 21-year-old mother Angela Blackmoore in Christchurch in 1995 has been described as a cold-blooded execution.