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New Zealand
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The bridge that takes 12 years to repaint
1:32 pm todayRNZ caught up with NZTA's manager of maintenance and operations to find out the latest progress and challenges with the Auckland's Harbour Bridge project.
The oddest news RNZ covered in 2025
'Close call': Elderly man saved after collapsing, getting lost during hike in Coromandel
Pacific
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2025 in review: The year that was in Pacific news
11:15 am todayRNZ Pacific's bulletin editor Christina Persico looks in the rearview mirror at 2025. Audio
Starlink withdraws satellite services from Papua New Guinea
'I’m excited to give back':Roy Krishna signs for Bula FC
Sport
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Kyrgios beats Sabalenka in 'Battle of the Sexes' showdown
3:45 pm todayWith a one-serve-per-point rule in effect, both players faltered on their deliveries in crucial moments before Kyrgios broke for a 4-3 lead and went on to take the opening set.
Former Phoenix player returns home
Curator 'shocked' by Melbourne pitch performance in Ashes
Politics
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'Follow through on it' - Group backs plan to tackle transnational organised crime
1:01 pm todayA ministerial advisory group said organised crime was impacting every New Zealander whether they recognised it or not.
Sheep shearing industry, government announce $75,000 animal welfare programme
Where do MPs go, when they go bush?
World
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Brigitte Bardot, the French star you 'had to see to believe'
11:06 am todayFew epitomised French chic like Brigitte Bardot, whose sensuality rocked a post-war world - but her repeated court appearances for 'inciting racial hatred' also drew fire.
Mexican train derailment kills at least 13 people, 98 injured
Anthony Albanese announces terms for Richardson review of Bondi terrorist attack
Comment & Analysis
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JD Vance tries to have it both ways on Nick Fuentes and antisemitism
23 Dec 2025Analysis - Vance could inherit a conservative movement that is increasingly riven over antisemitism and conspiracy theories in its midst.
Parliament's year in numbers
Australia defeats words with actions to outclass England and romp to Ashes glory
Local Democracy Reporting
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Tourism business ‘extremely distressed’ by road closures
1:01 pm todayA Marlborough Sounds tourism operator says restricted access road closures is leaving them cut off from customers at the start of the peak summer season.
Northland Regional Council zeroes in on rare rates freeze
Get the Wahs! Rotorua dreams of Warriors return after seven-year absence
In Depth
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Integrity probe into Yachting NZ drags into second year
The Sport Integrity Commission's first major investigation, triggered by dozens of complaints about Yachting NZ, remains unfinished a year on.
A permit for trapping feral cats may get much easier to obtain after a U-turn by DOC
Lost in transition: The businesses trapped by New Zealand’s energy crisis
Te Ao Māori
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Māori Land Court cannot rule on Porotī Springs water
25 Dec 2025A long-running effort by hapū trustees to have their customary rights to Porotī Springs legally recognised has hit another hurdle.
Study shows the experience of Māori grappling with 'te reo trauma'
'Our sense of identity': What New Zealand and Georgia have in common
Business
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Gull, NPD merger should bring fuel prices down - AA
The Automobile Association believes a proposed merger between two fuel companies should drive down pump prices.
India free trade agreement excludes dairy, but that could change - minister
Can I travel while getting NZ Super, and other most-asked questions of 2025 - Ask Susan
Country
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Country Life: On the job with Whanganui River's rural postie
Rural postie Tracy Marshall takes visitors along her mail delivery route which winds along the Whanganui River.
Nitrates in water: ECan's rule-making fell short of law over allowing discharges, High Court rules
Country Life: Farming trees the Tāmata Hauhā way
Environment
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DoC warns dog owners after rare fairy tern nests disturbed
23 Dec 2025Only about 40 adult tara iti survive in the wild, and of those just 10 are breeding females.
Water fight: Farmers strive to limit cows' environmental footprint
Climate change could claim nearly all of NZ's glaciers, research shows
Media & Technology
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The best games we played in 2025
16 Dec 2025More than 200 titles dropped this year, here are some we loved playing the most.
It’s not you - some fonts feel different
Tova O'Brien announced as new Breakfast presenter
Identity
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How did we become known as 'Kiwis'?
16 Oct 2024How did residents of Aotearoa New Zealand come to be called by the name of a flightless brown bird? Audio
Turning Palmerston North into the 'capital of drag' in Aotearoa
X-plainer: Who are Generation X?
IndoNZ
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‘Millennial nostalgia with Bollywood bangers’: Young Indian Kiwis embrace DJ life
6:40 am todayA new generation of Indian New Zealanders is using music to express identity, community and creativity.
Celebrating Christmas with Indian culinary favourites
2025 in review: A year when New Zealand-India relations took off