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Scientists investigate venomous spider ‘hotspots’

· December 30, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Supplied / Professor Steve Trewick Researchers are investigating “hotspots” of a venomous spider throughout the country this summer. The invasive noble false widow spider was first...

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The biggest Kiwi sporting stories of 2025

· December 29, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Geordie Beamish. PHOTOSPORT Controversies, comebacks, suspensions, breakthrough wins and a near perfect seasons, there have been some truly massive sport’s stories involving New Zealanders this year....

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The oddest news RNZ covered in 2025

· December 29, 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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Former Black Cap Doug Bracewell retires from cricket

· December 29, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Doug Bracewell playing for Central Districts 2024. PHOTOSPORT Former Black Caps allrounder Doug Bracewell has announced his retirement from all cricket. The 35-year-old debuted as an...

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Memorable moments from across the sporting globe in 2025

· December 28, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand India win women’s cricket world cup, Rory McIlroy finally wins the Masters Tournament, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis breaks is own pole vault world record, baseball star Shohei...

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Andrew Bayly and the fight for Antarctica

· December 26, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Andrew Bayly went to Antarctica in 2012. Supplied Andrew Bayly still remembers the “visual assault” of Antarctica, the piercing blue clarity and scale-bending brightness. The National...

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Tucking in the Christmas spirit in Upper Hutt

· December 25, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Christmas lunch diners John Kiegan and Thelma Balthiejus. RNZ / Ellen O’Dwyer Since early Christmas morning, volunteers, chefs and do-gooders have been busy cooking up Christmas...

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A Russian Christmas to keep the tradition alive

· December 24, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Valentina Manktelow with her children Zakhar and Slava. Ke-Xin Li Seven-year-old Zakhar Manktelow has just met Ded Moroz and wrote him a wishlist. “I wrote snowman,...

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An unwelcome Christmas gift for anti-social road users

· December 24, 2025

Source: New Zealand Police Wellington Police have disrupted multiple planned anti-social road user gatherings overnight. Hutt Valley Area Commander Inspector Wade Jennings says checkpoints and a visible Police presence at...

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Ten interesting New Zealanders we met this year

· December 23, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Northland fisherman Cliff Barnes, 80, has had more brushes with death than most of us have had hot fish dinners. He’s fallen off his fishing boat...

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How a Fiji man took on the world’s biggest polluters

· December 23, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand By Jamie Tahana for RNZ Pacific Vishal Prasad (Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change) speaks to the press before the International Court of Justice following the...

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Family business: Whitney Hansen’s time has arrived

· December 19, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand It didn’t take long for the fact that Whitney Hansen was following in her father’s considerable footsteps to be brought up, as the newly announced Black...