Summer Report

Short supply and voracious demand have pushed average house prices in Auckland to an all-time high. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Police say the fire at Pines Beach, Kaiapoi, on Monday that threatened 40 homes is suspicious. Audio

Japan is sending its whaling boats back to the Antarctic tomorrow for what they are describing as non-lethal scientific research. Audio

It was a day of records at the Basin Reserve yesterday, as Kane Williamson and BJ Watling batted together for eight hours to save the second cricket test against Sri Lanka Audio

In New Zealand, the benchmark top 50 index dropped about half a percent yesterday. Audio

Tumbling oil prices and jitters about Greek elections have prompted a slide in the global markets in the first days of new year trading. Audio

Oil prices fall to a five and a half year low. Kane Williamson on a record breaking day at the cricket and Japanese whalers head back to the Antarctic. Audio

The familiar "whup-whup" of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's fleet of Iroquois helicopters will soon to be a thing of the past as the choppers are phased out in 2015. Audio

Most teenage babysitters will have a good working knowlege of your pantry, and the TV remote, and are bound to have figured out what your Wifi password is, but how much do they actually know about… Read more Audio

Around 65 thousand babies were born in New Zealand last year and according to the latest top ten, the perennial favourites - Charlotte, Olivia, Oliver, Jack and James, all features once again. Audio

According to a poll, almost half of all New Zealanders would support shifting the summer holidays to February when the weather's usually warmer. Audio