Summer Report

Fresh water is shaping up to be one of this year's critical election issues as swimming holes become increasingly unusable and companies line up to sell New Zealand water overseas. In February last… Read more Audio

The advertising watchdog has found in favour of Greenpeace after complaints were made that its adverts blamed the dairy industry for water pollution. Russel Norman, the Executive Director of… Read more Audio

The association's president, Chris Cahill, says the shootings are not due to a change in the approach taken by the police. He says more than 20-thousand firearms, including semi-automatic military… Read more Audio

A scrub fire in the Hawke's Bay settlement of Mahanga yesterday destroyed a house and burnt through around 35 hectares of grassland and trees. RNZ journalist Elizabeth Brown has been holidaying in… Read more Audio

Fifteen is the age people are the happiest and it's all downhill from there according to new research from Melbourne University. Audio

In many offices around the country, including ours here at RNZ, we celebrate our work colleagues' birthdays with cakes. Audio

From just small beginnings the marae recycling programme called "Para Kore" has grown into a movement transforming whanau, hapu and iwi along the way. Audio

The tournament's top drawcards continue to drop out of the ASN tennis tournament in Auckland. Audio

A campaigner who successfully halted the sale of water rights in Ashburton is now trying to stop the same thing happening on the West Coast. Audio

The top intelligence official in the United States has told congress he is "even more resolute" in his belief that Russia was behind cyber attacks on the Democrats during the 2016 election campaign. Audio

A lobby group in Australia says the controversial comments by a senator demanding the rights of New Zealanders be slashed are "far-fetched and stupid". Audio

St John has cut the wages of some ambulance workers taking part in strike action. Audio