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Wild weather hasn’t dampened NZ’s New Year celebrations
Source: Radio New Zealand Fireworks at the Sky Tower in Auckland at midnight. RNZ / Kim Baker Wilson New Year’s celebrations are well underway – despite the dreary weather in...
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Wild weather won’t dampen NZ’s New Year celebrations
Source: Radio New Zealand NYE crowds in central Wellington. RNZ / Ruth Hill With less than two hours left of 2025, New Year’s celebrations are well underway – despite the...
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Mega strike, police scandals and bye-bye Census: The biggest stories from 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand NZ’s biggest news stories 2025. RNZ / Quin Tauetau The year 2025 felt like the year of the strikes. Over the past 12 months, we saw...
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Wild weather won’t dampen Auckland’s New Year fireworks
Source: Radio New Zealand Fireworks from the 2023 display. BBC screenshot Half a tonne of fireworks set to launch from the Sky Tower for New Year in Auckland are being...
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Navy Commodore Andrew Brown awarded in New Year Honours List
Source: Radio New Zealand Andrew Brown has been recognised for his leadership of New Zealand’s response to the grounding of the HMNZS Manawanui. RNZ/ Susana Lei’ataua A Navy Commodore has...
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New Zealand opts not to join international statement warning of deteriorating situation in Gaza
Source: Radio New Zealand A new displacement camp set up by the Egyptian Committee in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip on 11 November 2025. AFP / Eyad Baba New Zealand has not...
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BBSB International Limited Proposes Listing on GEM of HKEx to raise a maximum of approximately HK$87 million by way of Share Offer
Source: Media Outreach Highlights An established civil engineering contractor in Malaysia specialised in providing bridge engineering services as a subcontractor for large scale transportation infrastructure, with over 16 years of...
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NZ Government urgently needs to join international condemnation of Israeli suspension of aid organisations in Gaza – PSNA
Source: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says the government urgently needs to join international condemnation of Israel’s suspension of dozens of humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without...
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Police locate firearm and drugs during routine traffic stop, Kawakawa, Far North
Source: New Zealand Police Police have arrested and charged a man after a routine traffic stop led to locating a firearm, ammunition, methamphetamine, another offensive weapon, and drug paraphernalia. On...
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Advocacy – Israeli Genocide Holiday Season in NZ Peaking Now – PSNA
Source: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) Our summer is the main time for Israelis to visit New Zealand, and PSNA is warning that many soldiers who have been serving...
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Authorities urge violence-free night in Auckland, New Year’s events cancelled elsewhere
Source: Radio New Zealand An Auckland councillor is urging calm as revellers prepare to ring in the 2026 new year. AFP / NurPhoto An Auckland councillor is urging calm on...
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Weather: Parts of North Island still recovering from storm damage
Source: Radio New Zealand Campers at Totaranui Abel Tasman National Park had a near miss when a tree came down on some of their tents during Tuesday’s storm. Supplied /...
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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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Naturing countdown – our top stories of 2025
Source: NZ Department of Conservation It’s been a big year for nature! We take a look back and count down some of the biggest naturing stories from 2025… 10: New...
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New Year Honours: ‘Fire still burns’ for Sir Scott Dixon
Source: Radio New Zealand Sir Scott Dixon. David Allio/Icon Sportswire / PHOTOSPORT New Zealand’s most successful modern motorsport champion has been knighted – but Sir Scott Dixon is still a...
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2026 New Year Honours: Seven New Zealanders named Knights and Dames
Source: Radio New Zealand Professor Graham Le Gros, Coral Shaw, Dorothy Spotswood and Scott Dixon are four of the seven being named Dames and Knights. RNZ Seven new Knights and...
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‘Quite heavy in localised areas ‘: More rain on the way for New Year’s Eve
Source: Radio New Zealand Festival goers at Rhythm and Vines are off to a soggy start after the region was wiped with heavy rain. Lucy Parkinson Much of the country...
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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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YEAR IN REVIEW: Five climate disasters that disrupted children’s lives in 2025
Source: Save the Children In 2025, children were deeply affected by climate disasters around the world – from heatwaves that forced schools to close to flash floods and storms that flattened...
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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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Year in review: NZ Warriors ride rollercoaster to NRL playoffs
Source: Radio New Zealand The Warriors hopes suffer a crippling blow, as star halfback Luke Metcalf falls to a season-ending knee injury. Tertius Pickard/www.photosport.nz Under the Go Media Stadium stand,...
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Power outages, heavy rain and strong gales as wild weather heads south
Source: Radio New Zealand Campers at Totaranui Abel Tasman National Park had a near miss when a tree came down on some of their tents. They had moved into a...
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Name release, New Plymouth house fire
Source: New Zealand Police Police can now release the name of the person who died following a house fire in Trelawney Crescent, New Plymouth on 24 December. He was 49-year-old...
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Political coups, fake doctors, deepfake porn and wild weather – What RNZ explained in 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ explainer journalism aims to make sense of the news of the day. 123rf Explainer – What were some of the biggest topics RNZ’s journalists explained...
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Live weather updates: Tents destroyed, trees down in heavy winds
Source: Radio New Zealand The roof of an unoccupied home in the Auckland suburb of Hillsborough came off in high winds and scattered debris down the road. RNZ / Kim...
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Weather: Tents destroyed, trees down in heavy winds
Source: Radio New Zealand Campground managers in the North Island are hoping for sunnier weather leading up to New Year’s. Ruth Kuo Wild weather battered much of the North Island...
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Campground managers hoping for sunnier New Year’s Eve weather
Source: Radio New Zealand Campground managers in the North Island are hoping for sunnier weather leading up to New Year’s. Ruth Kuo Campground managers in the North Island are hoping...