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Climate emergencies: Councils warned to proceed with care
Thursday, 13 June 2019, 4:13 pm | RNZ
While Auckland City Council has become the latest to declare a climate emergency , four councils who have already made similar declarations are grappling with how to turn words into action. More >>
Dotcom extradition hearing: 'Possession' of files
Thursday, 13 June 2019, 4:03 pm | RNZ
Whether or not Kim Dotcom's file-sharing Megaupload ever properly possessed users' files - and therefore criminally breached copyright - has come in for heated debate in the Supreme Court. More >>
Megaupload extradition: Finn Batato finally appoints lawyer
Thursday, 13 June 2019, 11:56 am | RNZ
One of the men facing extradition alongside Kim Dotcom has finally gained a lawyer - who suggested to the Supreme Court that his client had been unfairly swept up in the case. More >>
Five Eyes made information requests after Budget hack claim
Thursday, 13 June 2019, 11:52 am | RNZ
The country's spy agency, the GCSB, says three requests for information and offers of assistance were made by Five Eyes countries in the wake of the so-called hack of Treasury. More >>
Housing Minister says unpublished meeting 'not a secret'
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 5:21 pm | RNZ
Housing Minister Phil Twyford says an error from his office meant a meeting with another minister and the Auckland mayor was not included in his publicly released diaries. More >>
Coral bleaching and the perilous forecast for Pacific reefs
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 4:41 pm | RNZ
When Kristine Zipfel jumped into the sea off Mo'orea, she expected to open her eyes to an underwater world teeming with life and colour. More >>
Taking climate change seriously without being alarmist
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 4:29 pm | RNZ
Practical action rather than symbolic statements is what's needed to tackle the climate crisis, Prof Bronwyn Hayward says. More >>
Fungal disease claims life of seventh kākāpō
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 11:37 am | RNZ
Nora 1-A was just over 100 days old and was the sickest of the kākāpō being treated at the New Zealand Centre Conservation Medicine at Auckland Zoo. More >>
Mosque victims spend 19,500 hours in hospital, 3000 in ICU
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 10:18 am | RNZ
Listen duration 4:17 Click a link to play audio (or right-click to download) in either MP3 format or in OGG format . More >>
Wanaka midwives group rejects DHB claims over office birth
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 10:08 am | RNZ
A Wanaka midwives support group have rejected Southern DHB's claims a woman who gave birth on an office floor had access to a procedure room in a medical centre next door. More >>
Treasury's Budget 'hack': timeline revealed
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 9:33 am | RNZ
The government has finally given some clarity around the timeline of who knew what, and when , regarding Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf's claim Treasury's website had been hacked. More >>
Tapu Te Ranga marae fire damage: Whānau plan for new chapter
Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 3:46 pm | RNZ
The whānau from Tapu Te Ranga Marae have begun planning to build a new shared living space or papakāinga where their marae once stood. More >>
Lack of access to Fox Glacier causes businesses to suffer
Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 12:25 pm | RNZ
A West Coast community says Fox Glacier will become a ghost town without access to its star attraction. More >>
KiwiBuild pre-approved applicants list raises questions
Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 11:47 am | RNZ
Would someone who could raise $650,000 for a house deposit be considered a struggling first-home buyer and need a KiwiBuild house? More >>
National supports troop withdrawal - if partners do same
Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 11:35 am | RNZ
The National Party is on board with the government pulling Kiwi troops out of Iraq next year - on the condition Australia and the United States also withdraw. More >>
Insurance taskforce to deal with skyrocketing premiums
Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 11:26 am | RNZ
Got a problem and no clear way forward? Set up a taskforce. That's the course of action Wellington's leaders are taking following an insurance forum in the city yesterday. More >>
Concerns visa delays could cost education sector billions
Tuesday, 11 June 2019, 11:09 am | RNZ
A briefing document from Education New Zealand warns the lucrative foreign student sector is at risk because of the scale of student visa delays. More >>
Details of employment disputes between MPs and staffers
Monday, 10 June 2019, 5:19 pm | RNZ
Details of hush money, paid out to parliamentary staffers, to secretly settle employment disputes with MPs have been revealed to RNZ. More >>
Dotcom extradition in Supreme Court
Monday, 10 June 2019, 3:53 pm | RNZ
A district court decision that Kim Dotcom and three other men should be extradited to the United States was so flawed that it never should have been upheld, the men's lawyers have told the Supreme Court. More >>
Two new political polls at odds
Monday, 10 June 2019, 3:31 pm | RNZ
National Party leader Simon Bridges and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. While the two polls were at odds over the change to each party's fortunes, Mr Bridges' popularity as preferred PM remained low. Photo: RNZ More >>
