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Source: Radio New Zealand File pic AFP Jetstar check-ins at Auckland have been halted and some of its departures delayed by a technical issue. “Technical teams are onsite working to resolve the issue, and Jetstar has currently paused check-in, with some delays to departing flights today,” Auckland Airport said. “No other domestic flights are affected.” … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand An AI-generated falsely showing Westpac CEO Catherine McGrath clashing with Winston Peters on a news show. Supplied One of the country’s biggest banks is calling on social media giant Meta – owner of Facebook and Instagram – to do more to protect New Zealanders from fraud and scams on its platforms. … Read more
Source: New Zealand Government Moody’s decision to revise New Zealand’s Aaa outlook from stable to negative reinforces that the Government’s response to the current fuel crisis and its wider economic plan is the right one, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. “Moody’s choice to put New Zealand on negative watch is another warning that we can’t … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand 123RF One person has died following a serious crash in Temuka in South Canterbury on Wednesday night. Emergency services were alerted to the single motorcycle crash on Factory Road at around 7.50pm. The rider died at the scene. The Serious Crash Unit has conducted a scene examination and the road has … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand File pic RNZ/ Calvin Samuel State Highway 29 is closed following a serious crash in Lower Kaimai on Thursday morning. Emergency services were called to a two-vehicle crash near the intersection with Valley View Road at around 5.50am. Initial indications suggest there are serious injuries, police said in a statement. The … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand As floodwaters reached a metre high inside a Wellington boarding house, Mōkena Spooner-Hokianga walked out with a few precious items in a plastic box. “Photos of my dad and photos of my mum, y’know, those sentimental things … they’re too important and I can’t replace them.” The Duckworth Lewis boarder was … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand Wellington Phoenix women’s head coach Bev Priestman with captain Mackenzie Barry. Marty Melville / PHOTOSPORT Wellington Phoenix’s stand-in captain Mackenzie Barry has experienced the lows of the A-League when seasons imploded and losses stacked up, now she is leading the team into the uncharted territory of finals football. Barry has been … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand A campaign group says universal free dental care in Aotearoa is affordable. AFP/ Thibaut Durand/ Hans Lucas A campaign group has released a detailed plan which it says shows universal free dental care in Aotearoa is both feasible and affordable. The report by Dental for All estimates it would cost $936 … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand The Morgan Gorge. Neil Silverwood Conservation and outdoor recreation groups say the fight to save a pristine back country river is not over as they consider legal action and warn of seismic risk. The controversial Waitaha hydro scheme received Fast Track Approval on Friday, becoming the 18th fast track project to … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand Life was looking up for man found dead after a house fire in Ruapehu, friends say The man’s boarder was killed in a car crash shortly after the fire Police launch homicide investigation. A 62-year-old man found dead after a house fire in the small Ruapehu settlement of Rangataua was getting … Read more
Source: New Zealand Government The conclusion of the Government’s Year 7 and 8 maths acceleration trial has shown students made double the progress of their peers in 12 weeks and largely retained their learning months later, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “We are committed to ensuring young Kiwis are learning the basics brilliantly, meeting the curriculum … Read more
PM Edition: Here are the top 10 business articles on LiveNews.co.nz for April 23, 2026 – Full Text
AM Edition: Here are the top 10 politics articles on LiveNews.co.nz for April 23, 2026 – Full Text
Source: Radio New Zealand Nine parked wagons in a Port Chalmers yard slowly rolled back and hit a locomotive in January last year. Donovan Govan, Otago Regional Council Transport accident investigators are calling on KiwiRail to improve its safety culture at Port Otago. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) on Thursday released its final report … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand The Dawn Service has been part of Anzac Day commemorations across New Zealand since 1939. The service, which traditionally begins with a military parade, is a formal way to honour New Zealanders killed in combat, as well as servicemen and women both returned and still serving. Attendance at dawn services has … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand The stairs that Dinson Thomas has to carry his daughter up in order to get inside their home. SUPPLIED A farmer in Queenstown has offered to pay the shortfall for a lift so a dad does not have to carry his teenage daughter from her wheelchair to their front door. The … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand If you went swimming at Piha Beach in West Auckland any weekend last summer, it’s almost certain that 75-year-old Karel Witten-Hannah was one of your guardians. Over the last summer he recalls the young woman who thought she was dying (Witten-Hannah “pinky promised” that she wasn’t) and another young woman who … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand Jone Vakarisi was heard screaming and begging, according to his sister. Supplied Jone Vakarisi was heard screaming and begging before he was “brutalised to death” in Fiji military custody last week, according to his sister. Melehola Tagaga told Pacific Waves that the well known drug pusher was asked if he was … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand As the market slumps again, sellers are facing the prospect of gambling on a recovery or just cutting their losses. RNZ / Quin Tauetau New Zealand’s property market is facing another slow patch – leaving some owners who bought in the post-Covid peak wondering what to do next. Cotality’s latest data … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand By Mata Che Wilson. Supplied / Aukaha Former Te Pāti Māori president Che Wilson has sparked debate following a controversial haka performed at the Tainui Regional Kapa Haka competition over the weekend. The haka, directed at ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar, included the phrase “purari karikari iniana”, which has been interpreted as … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand NZEI President Ripeka Lessels, the head of the country’s largest education sector union. NZEI supplied Hundreds of principals and thousands of teachers remain opposed to the government’s curriculum overhaul as consultation closes on Friday. Thirty-nine local and regional principals associations and six teacher subject associations have now signed a letter started … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand The much-missed bells of the carillon in Wellington are playing again. Silent for most of the last 14 years, this Saturday they will be heard at the national Anzac commemorations at the national war memorial in Pukeahu Park. Inside the belltower, open now that quake strengthening had been done using a … Read more
Source: Media Outreach HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 22 April 2026 – Cushman & Wakefield, a leading global real estate services firm, today released its annual Beyond the Carbon Blind Spot– Embodied Carbon and Scope 3 Emissions in the Commercial Property Sector on the Chinese Mainland, a landmark report highlighting the growing … Read more
Source: Media Outreach ORDOS, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 22 April 2026 – On April 20, 2026, a new batch of watermelon seedlings was transplanted in the greenhouses within the reclamation area of Minda Coal Mine, located in Dongsheng District, Ordos, Inner Mongolia. This open-pit coal mine has an annual production capacity of 8 … Read more
Source: Statistics New Zealand An overview of disability data in Aotearoa New Zealand – report 22 April 2026 Stats NZ is pleased to release An overview of disability data in Aotearoa New Zealand, a new report developed to make it easier to find, understand, and use disability data in Aotearoa New Zealand. It includes an overview … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ/Marika Khabazi A person has been rescued from a property fire in the Auckland suburb of Takanini on Wednesday. Emergency services received multiple calls about people potentially being trapped in a one-storey property about 6.20pm. FENZ northern communications shift manager Ryan Geen said crews found one person inside, who was taken … Read more
Source: Radio New Zealand The Tarawera River, where two people died on Thursday Google Maps The two boys who died after a riverbank they were playing on collapsed at Kawerau last week have been named by police. They were 11-year-old Luti Maui Mafi and 10-year-old Paul Mason Lloyd. Police had said a group of children … Read more