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Valued and visible: making sign language live
Source: New Zealand Government A new 10-year strategy aims to strengthen New Zealand Sign Language, making it a more visible, valued part of everyday life Launching the NZSL Strategy 2026-2036,...
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Seafood company Sanford’s full-year net profit $63.7 million, more than triple previous year
Source: Radio New Zealand Sanford’s net profit for the year ended September was $63.7 million. Supplied / Sanford Seafood company Sanford has made a record full-year profit driven by the...
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When will instant coffee be affordable again?
Source: Radio New Zealand Instant coffee prices have spiked this year. creative commons – pixabay – moritz320 The cost of food continues to climb, with Stats NZ figures showing some...
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Our Changing World: Mixing oil and water, the greener way
Source: Radio New Zealand Some of the Dot Ingredients team in the lab at AUT that they are currently working out of. Claire Concannon Oil and water famously don’t mix...
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Black Ferns star Ruahei Demant heading to Britain
Source: Radio New Zealand Black Ferns Ruahei Demant. Andrew Cornaga/www.photosport.nz Black Ferns co-captain Ruahei Demant is heading to Britain to help develop her game. Demant will play for the Bristol...
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Cricket: Daryl Mitchell to miss rest of West Indies series
Source: Radio New Zealand Black Cap Daryl Mitchell takes a catch. Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport.nz / Photosport Ltd 2025 Black Caps batter Daryl Mitchell will miss the rest of the...
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Refuge organisations shocked at increase in women needing to escape abuse
Source: Radio New Zealand Anti-family violence white ribbon day is 25 November. 123RF WARNING: This story includes content that may be disturbing to some readers. One Rotorua women’s refuge says...
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Education Ministry gets hundreds of calls, emails over play sand contamination – Seymour
Source: Radio New Zealand Educational Colours Rainbow Sand has been recalled. Supplied / Product Safety NZ The deputy prime minister says several hundred schools and childhood centres have contacted the...
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‘The hardest journey possible’: $250,000 raised for mother of children killed in Sanson fire
Source: Radio New Zealand The children have been named in the Givealittle campaign for their mother as August, Hugo and Goldie. GIVEALITTLE / SUPPLIED Police have been keeping guard overnight...
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Penny Simmonds concerned less than 50 percent of trainees completing apprenticeships
Source: Radio New Zealand Less than 50 percent of trainees are completing apprenticeships. RNZ / Dom Thomas Vocational Education Minister Penny Simmonds says she is seeking extra funding so new...
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Boxing: Anthony Joshua to fight Jake Paul next month
Source: Radio New Zealand Anthony Joshua after his fight against Oleksander Usyk in 2021. Mark Robinson / PHOTOSPORT Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua will take on YouTube star...
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Morning Report : Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. RNZ / Mark Papalii Labour has been gaining ground in opinion polls, leading on issues from the economy and healthcare, but a...
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Stats NZ: Grinding gears in data’s ‘big machine’
Source: Radio New Zealand Statistics Minister Shane Reti has called the national system “dated and constrained”. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone A unique trove of information for measuring the impact of...
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Morning Report live: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. RNZ / Mark Papalii Labour has been gaining ground in opinion polls, leading on issues from the economy and healthcare, but a...
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‘No minimum sentence’: Do child sexual exploitation prison terms reflect the severity of the crime?
Source: Radio New Zealand Pixabay/shafin_protic An advocacy organisation says it receives calls from people covertly asking for help to avoid offending – but despite evidence that programmes work, resources to...
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Everything feels better in sets of three. Three’s also my prison.
Source: Radio New Zealand My favourite number has always been three. In my mind, three is a waltz moving in circles, graceful and hypnotic. It plays brightly in a major...
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Osaka pulls out of ASB Classic, Svitolina and Navarro signed up
Source: Radio New Zealand Naomi Osaka at the US Open tennis tournament on 28 August. AFP / Timothy A Clary Former world women’s tennis number one Naomi Osaka has withdrawn...
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Triathlon: Hayden Wilde puts chaotic race behind him
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand triathlete Hayden Wilde. Alan Lee / www.photosport.nz New Zealand triathlete Hayden Wilde is sure there will be more robust technical involvement in future T100...
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‘Portals to the past’: Indigenous educators reconnect with Pacific wayfinding
Source: Radio New Zealand Indigenous educators from across the world reconnected with the knowledge of their tūpuna at WIPCE 2025 – guided by Māori kaihautū and two of the original...
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Kaitāia reels at violent death of ‘relentlessly optimistic’ businessman Monty Knight
Source: Radio New Zealand Monty Knight established his own winery, Okahu Estate, just outside Kaitāia. RNZ/Carol Stiles Kaitāia is reeling from the violent death of a man described as “an...
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‘Not meant to be around here’: Auckland native bird hospital seeing more sub-Antarctic species
Source: Radio New Zealand A white-headed petrel doing a water test to check its swimming and water resistance. RNZ / Finn Blackwell A native bird hospital is concerned about the...
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Three suspicious fires in Dunedin overnight
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Fire and Emergency (FENZ) says it had to deal with three suspicious fires overnight in Dunedin. At 11:30pm on Monday, four crews...
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Uber drivers’ Supreme Court decision could collapse gig economy, business groups say
Source: Radio New Zealand AFP Business groups says a Supreme Court decision that Uber drivers are employees rather than contractors could collapse the gig economy. It comes after the Supreme...
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What IKEA’s opening will mean for local homeware retailers
Source: Radio New Zealand IKEA has released details of some of the prices it will charge in New Zealand. RNZ / Marika Khabazi IKEA has released details of some of...
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NZ will be ‘dumping ground’ for high emission cars, EV advocate warns
Source: Radio New Zealand The coalition government is set to slash the Clean Car Standard. RNZ/Nicky Park The coalition is being warned New Zealand will become a dumping ground for...
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Blue light discos, books, boats and UFOs: The swirly world of Andrew Fagan
Source: Radio New Zealand Most New Zealand music fans of a certain age (ie, 50+) will remember Andrew Fagan as the frontman for legendary 1980s punky popsters The Mockers. Back...
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Jaeyoung Jang accused of murdering father and son in Bucklands Beach house fire
Source: Radio New Zealand Police guard at the scene of the Bucklands beach double homicide fire. RNZ / Finn Blackwell The man accused of murdering a father and son who...