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8:22 AM.Whakatāne hospital's acute mental health facility may have to close unless urgent work is carried out to keep patients safe in an earthquake.

Board minutes from January reveal that GNS Science has… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.Benefit payments rates will get an inflation-matching increase of 7.2 percent next month. 

Superannuation payments will go up by $33 a week for an individual; and $25 a week each for a couple. 

It's… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.The Prime Minister's popularity is rising since he took the top job last month, garnering 27 percent in the prefered prime minister ratings according to the latest 1News Kantar Public Poll.

The poll… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Two soldiers have revealed they disobeyed Civil Defence orders so they could rescue people trapped in Esk Valley during Cyclone Gabrielle. 

Locals there were stranded on roofs as floodwaters raged… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Aucklanders will be paying more for water from July this year. 

Watercare has confirmed service prices for water and wastewater will go up by 9.5 percent. 

Watercare chief executive Dave Chambers… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.The Green Party isn't any happier with the government's policy reset, with co-leader James Shaw saying he is exasperated by the moves.

Climate change has been put on the backburner, and there are… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis is pleased to see the government's climate policies dropped in its latest spending reprioritisation.

Willis said the policies were not efficient enough, and… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Banks profits hit a record high of nearly $7.2-billion dollars last year - 17-percent higher than the year before - despite a slowing economy, rising interest rates, and strong inflation. 

Eighty… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.The government says it's freeing up more money and more "bandwidth" to help it focus on cost of living pressures, by slashing a bunch of its more unpopular policies.

Speed limit reductions are… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.Three days after he was suspended by the BBC, presenter and former footballer Gary Lineker will be allowed back on air.

In a statement the broadcaster's director-general Tim Davy apologised for the… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.The Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says the Government is cutting its cloth to suit the times.

To do that it is axing or amending a swathe of policies and programmes - including ditching the… Read more Audio

6:39 AM.Less than two months into Chris Hipkins' time as Prime Minister and the Government's agenda is looking much slimmer.

Hipkins has axed - or amended - a swathe of programmes in his second policy purge… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.In Napier as the clean-up continues, crime appears to be trending downwards.

Corin Dann spoke to Napier mayor Kirsten Wise, who told him now is the right time to lift the State of Emergency.
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6:10 AM.After 28 days the national state of emergency for Tai Rāwhiti and Hawke's Bay ends on Tuesday morning and the two regions now enter the cyclone recovery phase.

They join Northland, Auckland, Waikato… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.Birders are recording more kererū, piwakawaka, and tūī in their backyards each year, according to the garden bird survey.

Manaaki Whenua - landcare research - has been co-ordinating the mid-winter… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Flood records have been swept aside in Burke, in Northern Queensland, Australia, where vast swathes of the Gulf of Carpentaria are underwater. 

Most residents of Burketown were flown to safety, while… Read more Audio