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Summer jobs: Avoiding the ‘wedgie’ slide at Splash Planet
Source: Radio New Zealand Splash Planet is the storied water park located in Hastings, in the Hawke’s Bay region of the North Island. The park opened in 1967 as Fantasyland...
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18 Māori recognised for 2026 in New Year Honours list
Source: Radio New Zealand Professor Thomas Charles Roa has become a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori language and education RNZ / Pokere Paewai...
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16 Māori recognised for 2026 in New Year Honours list
Source: Radio New Zealand Professor Thomas Charles Roa has become a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori language and education RNZ / Pokere Paewai...
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New Year’s Honours – Fire and Emergency honours recipients congratulated
Source: Fire and Emergency New Zealand Fire and Emergency New Zealand Board Chair Rebecca Keoghan congratulates seven personnel, both paid and volunteer, from Ashburton, Leeston, Amberley, Napier, Wairoa, Te Aroha and...
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Māori excel in New Year Honours 2026
Source: New Zealand Government Mā mua ka kite a muri, mā muri ka ora e mua – Those who lead give sight to those who follow, those who follow give...
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Sport in 2025: The weird, wacky and wonderful
Source: Radio New Zealand There were a plethora of bizarre, quirky, and eye popping moments in the world of sport in 2025. Photosport What happened in the unpredictable world of...
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A history of New Zealand’s wildfires – and what’s to come
Source: Radio New Zealand The Port Hills fire on 14 February 2024. Stuff / Kai Schwoerer Off the back of two devastating wildfires in Tongariro National Park, the country is...
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Alien invasion that could threaten NZ’s entire economy is just a plane ride away
Source: Radio New Zealand [embedded content] An alien invasion that could threaten New Zealand’s entire economy is just a plane ride away. That is the key message from a new...
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New year – New inflight biosecurity video
Source: New Zealand Government The new inflight biosecurity video delivers a clear and urgent message to all international air passengers regarding their responsibility to safeguard New Zealand’s primary industries and...
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Animal rights advocates call for camera surveillance in shearing sheds
Source: Radio New Zealand PETA says video footage captured on New Zealand farms exposes the cruelty involved in sheep shearing. Supplied / PETA Asia Animal rights advocates are calling for...
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Essential New Zealand Albums: Strawpeople – Broadcast
Source: Radio New Zealand Sleek, modern, sophisticated and brimful of hits, their 1994 album Broadcast was a type of album by a type of group that hadn’t really been heard...
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The oddest news RNZ covered in 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A statue showing Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein; a roll of bread; the Dalai Lama; a lost and confused kitten; a Fabergé egg that went on...
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Sheep shearing industry, government announce $75,000 animal welfare programme
Source: Radio New Zealand The $75,000 fund follows allegations of sheep mistreatment related to shearing practices which are still under investigation. RNZ/Sally Round The government and the shearing industry have...
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Government and industry launch pilot to enhance welfare practices in shearing sector
Source: New Zealand Government The Government and industry are supporting training initiatives to improve animal welfare outcomes in New Zealand woolsheds, Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard and Rural Communities Minister...
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Ten of the best literary chats of 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand From struggling to learn to read at school during the war, Joy Cowley has gone on to become one of New Zealand’s most beloved and prolific...
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RNZ’s best videos to watch over summer
Source: Radio New Zealand 123RF Looking for something a bit different to watch this summer break? RNZ has you covered. There are more than 100 series and films available to...
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Man wanted for questioning in Ruatiti homicide turns himself in
Source: Radio New Zealand Sheep farmer husband and wife, Brendon, 56, and Trina Cole, 54, were found dead at their Murumuru Road property in the farming community of Ruatiti on...
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Wānaka entrepreneur John Lee remembered as key figurehead
Source: Radio New Zealand Cardrona’s main slopes opened on 14 June. RNZ/Katie Todd An Otago businessman who founded the country’s biggest ski area is being remembered as someone who shaped...
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Oyster farmers to receive another $1m over catastrophic sewage spill
Source: Radio New Zealand The sewage spill came at the peak of the oyster season. Nick Monro Watercare has fulfilled a promise to give another $1 million to beleaguered oyster...
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Scrub blaze near Hastings almost out, firefighters treated for heat exhaustion
Source: Radio New Zealand Firefighting has resumed this morning. Facebook / Hawke’s Bay Fire and Emergency The scrub fire near the Hawke’s Bay village of Fernhill – between the township...
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Firefighting resumes at scrub blaze in Fernhill, Hastings
Source: Radio New Zealand A firefighter extinguishing hotspots at the Fernhill fire on Tuesday. Supplied / FENZ Fire crews are battling to control a scrub blaze that broke out near...
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First Responders – Fernhill Fire Hawkes Bay Update #1
Source: Fire and Emergency New Zealand Residents living around the Farmhouse Lodge on the outskirts of Fernhill are being evacuated due to a vegetation fire. Fire and Emergency New Zealand has...
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Hawke’s Bay scrub fire destroys buildings, person hospitalised
Source: Radio New Zealand Drone footage of the fire near the Farmhouse Lodge in Fernhill. SUPPLIED Homes in rural Hastings are being evacuated due to a scrub fire which has...
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Hawke’s Bay scrub fire destroys buildings, homes evacuated
Source: Radio New Zealand The Farmhouse Lodge in Fernhill, Hawke’s Bay is near the fire. Screenshot / Google Maps Homes in rural Hastings are being evacuated due to a scrub...
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Provisional appointment of four District Commanders
Source: New Zealand Police Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has today provisionally appointed four new District Commanders in the regions of Waikato, Wellington, the Bay of Plenty and Eastern District. Superintendent...
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What we know about the Ruatiti double homicide as search for Mitchell Cole continues
Source: Radio New Zealand Mitchell Cole. Supplied / NZ Police It has been over a week since there was a double homicide in the small farming community of Ruatiti in...
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Shoes, rhinos and Jaffas: Trade Me’s top viewed auctions of 2025 revealed
Source: Radio New Zealand Tauranga teen Sam Ruthe broke records for the four minute-mile this year, and his shoes earned thousands on Trade Me. Phil Walter / Getty Images Well-worn...