Mining company withdraws application for fast-track approval to mine Taranaki seabed
Mining company Trans-Tasman Resources has withdrawn an application for fast-track approval to mine the Taranaki seabed. Photo: Supplied/…
Wairarapa residents assess damage after this week’s storm
The unprecedented flooding at Whāngaimoana Beach has laid-waste Mellisa Tipene’s veggie garden. The small settlement on Wairarapa’s south…
Labour MP Kieran McAnulty ordered to leave the House after challenging Speaker
Labour MP Kieran McAnulty. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Labour MP Kieran McAnulty was ordered to leave the…
Banks Peninsula locals frustrated by flood clean-up response from authorities
Community-led cleanups are continuing in flood-damaged Banks Peninsula, but nagging frustration remains over the response from local authorities.…
Leighton Meester defends exchange with Ariana Grande at Critics Choice Awards
Leighton Meester is clearing up that awkward exchange with Ariana Grande at the Critics Choice Awards in January.…
Confidential Wellington council documents found in sold desk should have been destroyed, review finds
In September last year a stash of more than 200 papers were found in a locked cupboard within…
Controversial high-rise development approved in Wellington
An artist’s impression of the seven-storey apartment building, Mayfair, that is proposed for Wellington’s Mt Victoria. Photo: Supplied…
AI and deep fakes becoming problematic for courts
Photo: RNZ / Diego Opatowski Courts will have to grapple more and more with AI fakes and it…
Promises to ban paywave surcharges ‘going nowhere’
Photo: 123RF Promises to ban paywave surcharges to help consumers save money appear to have stalled. The government…
Winston Peters has ‘no doubt’ he could’ve stopped contractors law if unions went to him earlier
Photo: RNZ / Mark Papalii The New Zealand First leader says if unions had come to him sooner,…
US military prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, but Trump has yet to make a final call, sources say
By Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak, CNN US President Donald Trump speaks during a stop at the Machine Shed…
OCR: Why no move was probably good news for home loans
The Reserve Bank kept the Official Cash Rate (OCR) at 2.25 percent. Photo: RNZ Wholesale interest rates have…