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New Zealand
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Significant changes on the horizon for tourism industry
29 Dec 2025The Tourism Minister has set her sights on doubling the value of tourism exports and growing the number of Kiwis working in the industry.
Holiday road toll stands at zero - but drivers still urged to be cautious
Weather: Heavy rain, strong winds for much of country
Pacific
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Tonga's Queen supports new public library proposal
The Queen of Tonga is putting her support behind the building of a new public library in Nuku'alofa Audio
2025 in review: Politics, health and climate change dominated Pacific news headlines this year
Starlink withdraws satellite services from Papua New Guinea
Sport
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Controversies, comebacks and suspensions: The biggest Kiwi sporting stories of 2025
29 Dec 2025RNZ sport looks back at some of the biggest Kiwi sports stories of 2025.
Cricket: A first for Amelia Kerr in big Blaze win
Nick Kyrgios beats Aryna Sabalenka in 'Battle of the Sexes' showdown
Politics
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'Follow through on it' - Group backs plan to tackle transnational organised crime
29 Dec 2025A 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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News of the weird: The strangest stories of 2025
29 Dec 2025There was no shortage of strange news filed by RNZ reporters and our international partners in the past 12 months - here's the year in review.
Thai army accuses Cambodia of violating truce with over 250 drones
China launches military drills simulating blockade of Taiwan ports
Comment & Analysis
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NZ report card 2025: How we fared in key global and domestic rankings
29 Dec 2025To borrow a phrase from old school reports: Shows great potential but needs to try harder, Alexander Gillespie writes.
JD Vance tries to have it both ways on Nick Fuentes and antisemitism
Parliament's year in numbers
Local Democracy Reporting
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Summer brings sense of 'home' for new migrants
29 Dec 2025About 800 new migrants from more than 45 countries have settled in Whangārei this year.
Tourism business ‘extremely distressed’ by road closures
Northland Regional Council zeroes in on rare rates freeze
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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India free trade agreement excludes dairy, but that could change - minister
New Zealand could continue to see improvements for the dairy industry under its Free Trade Agreement with India, the trade minister says.
Can I travel while getting NZ Super, and other most-asked questions of 2025 - Ask Susan
What to remember before your Boxing Day shopping spree
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
29 Dec 2025A 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