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An initiative aimed at improving nurse staffing levels at public hospitals has been labelled not fit for purpose and unable to deliver on the intended outcomes.

The Care Capacity Demand Management… Audio

A senior medical professional says he will leave Aotearoa for good if his parent is not allowed to stay in the country.

The specialist - whom RNZ has agreed not to name - says he already has multiple… Audio

The Buller District is struggling to recover from the record rainfall that doused the region this month, having been forced to extend its State of Emergency.

Dual flood events wreaked havoc on roads… Audio

Midday News Update for Thursday 17 February 2022 Audio

Catholic Archbishop Paul Martin has accepted that survivors of abuse want the Church to take responsibility and not just leave it to a particular Order that may have been involved.

He made the… Audio

The Islamic Women's Council says the attack that left a Dunedin schoolgirl with concussion after three students ripped her hijab off is a hate incident.

Seventeen-year-old Hoda Al-Jamaa was sitting… Audio

Aotea Great Barrier Islanders fear they will go the same way as Waiheke Island with lots of helicopters buzzing their skies.

The isolated island has had five applications for helipads in five months… Audio

The police ultimatum to protesters blocking streets around Parliament appears to have evaporated with not a single illegally parked vehicle being towed away.

Yesterday the Commissioner told Morning… Audio

New Zealand Olympian Sir Mark Todd has been given interim suspension by the British Horseracing Authority for repeatedly hitting a horse with a tree branch.

In a video, Sir Todd runs towards the… Audio

An Otago schoolgirl ended up in hospital with concussion after three other students ripped her hijab off and beat her.

Seventeen-year-old Hoda Al-Jamaa was sitting with her friends at Otago Girls'… Audio

After nine days of occupation, the police have decided to start removing vehicles, warning protesters won't be getting them back in a hurry.

Authorities have been delayed in their efforts to clear… Audio

There's no sign of tow trucks on the streets around Parliament yet, despite the Police Commissioner, Andrew Coster, giving protesters an ultimatum.

Cars, Campervans and trucks continue to block the… Audio

The police plan to pry proteters cars off the road, and we're in phase 2, but for how long...?

Nicola Wright has the news. Audio

On the morning of Saturday 12 February, Jeremy Glenn of The Upbeats woke up to a rather exciting out-of-the-blue email. The Christchurch drum-and-bass artist learnt that a track he'd written with his… Video, Audio

The head of the St John of God Order in Oceania has denied that a lack of documents relating to historical allegations of abuse at Marylands School is evidence of a cover-up.

The Order ran Marylands… Audio

The National Party and the Government are still locked in an argument about rapid antigen tests, but Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins says stockpiling them would have been a waste.

National… Audio

Conversion therapy will soon be illegal.

Legislation banning the practice of trying to change or suppress a person's sexual orientation or gender identity has passed its third and final reading at… Audio

An Otago schoolgirl ended up in hospital with concussion after three other students ripped her hijab off and beat her. 

Hoda Al-Jamaa was sitting with her friends at Otago Girls' High School when… Audio