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New Zealand
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Thousands without power around country as wild weather moves south
30 Dec 2025Stormy weather has been moving slowly south down the country today, leaving thousands without power.
Dog attack victim says Kaipara mauling followed years of complaints
Alien invasion that could threaten NZ's entire economy is just a plane ride away
Pacific
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Tokelaun diaspora looking to work more closely with families back home
Tokelauns in New Zealand are making moves work more closely with communities back home. Audio
Tonga's Queen supports new public library proposal
2025 in review: Politics, health and climate change dominated Pacific news headlines this year
Sport
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Year in review: NZ Warriors ride rollercoaster to NRL playoffs
30 Dec 2025After a strong 7-2 start to their campaign, the Auckland-based side were left wondering how to return to the grand final.
Liam Lawson tests out Australian Supercar
Former All Blacks coach named in UK honours
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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Stranded PNG cruise ship passengers to be flown home
30 Dec 2025Some Kiwis are among passengers on an Australian cruise ship that ran aground off Papua New Guinea will fly out of the country after efforts to refloat the vessel failed.
The oddest news RNZ covered in 2025
China conducts second day of military drills around Taiwan
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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Thousands of Wairarapa properties at risk in the event of 1-in-100-year flood
30 Dec 2025The number of houses at risk is likely to increase, with modelling suggesting the effects of climate change will also increase in the future.
Summer brings sense of ‘home’ for Whangārei’s new migrants
Tourism business ‘extremely distressed’ by road closures
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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Ngā Kaupapa Hirahira o te Tau: A look back at the year that was in Te Ao Māori
30 Dec 2025RNZ's Te Manu Korihi team look back at the kaupapa and the people that shook Te Ao Māori in 2025.
Court of Appeal: Māori Land Court cannot rule on Porotī Springs water
Study shows the experience of Māori grappling with 'te reo trauma'
Business
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Why Starbucks doesn't want to be everywhere anymore
The coffee chain spent years trying to become an inescapable storefront on the streets of New York, Los Angeles and other big cities in America. Now that's coming to an end.
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