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Teenager starves to death alone in emergency accommodation
12 Jun 2025The 17-year-old's parents say multiple agencies failed their child.
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Row erupts over five 'Year 14s' in school's controversial first XV
Critics say the college has stacked its team with older players, with one parent saying it's making a "mockery" of a premier competition.
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The Pentagon, NZ and the new nuclear overlap
12 Jun 2025The US is modernising its nuclear weapons command and control system. New Zealand nay feel the effects.
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Bodies of four weasels found inside Zealandia eco-sanctuary
12 Jun 2025Unwanted visitors have made their way into Wellington sanctuary.
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Brian Wilson, music icon and creative force behind The Beach Boys, has died at 82
12 Jun 2025The Beach Boys musician, songwriter and producer who wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds, has died aged 82.
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'Went too far': Musk on his posts about Trump
Elon Musk took to the social media platform X, after exchanging insults with US President Donald Trump.
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Report finds stark outcomes for Māori in state care system
12 Jun 2025The Independent Children's Monitor has found Māori children overrepresented in Oranga Tamariki's systems, with outcomes as they grow up painting a "paint a stark picture".
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'Moved around like cattle': Rough sleepers in makeshift CBD camp trespassed
12 Jun 2025The council says the operation was necessary due to antisocial behaviour.
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Police have grave concerns for missing 79-year-old woman
12 Jun 2025Elisabeth Nicholls disappeared after walking out of a retirement village in Riccarton.
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'It's hard to know what's real and what's not': KiwiSaver hardship concerns
12 Jun 2025A growing number of New Zealanders are making hardship withdrawals from their retirement savings.
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'Extremely unhelpful': US criticises allies as NZ bans two Israeli ministers
11 Jun 2025Winston Peters says the pair 'actively undermine peace and security', but the US has called the sanctions "extremely unhelpful".
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Netflix 'doesn't need us' or our 'silly' levy
The idea of forcing the global streaming giant to fund local shows won't work, TV production pioneer Dame Julie Christie tells 30 with Guyon Espiner.
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'Devastated' mum believes son had allergic reaction before sudden death
11 Jun 2025Paula Brown is waiting for answers about what happened to her son at a respite facility before he died of cardiac arrest.
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Australian tradie who won $22 million in NZ Lotto dies from drug use
11 Jun 2025Josh Winslet's winnings soon attracted the wrong crowd and he slid into drug crime.
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76 days, 1100 worms, 25% less body weight: the first Kiwi to win Alone
Meet the Bay of Plenty possum-trapper who's just become the first Kiwi to take out a season of the hit survival show.
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The company doing things with food nobody else wants
10 Jun 2025Rescued Kitchen turns surplus bread into crumbs and tonnes of tomatoes into sauces.
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'We are living a nightmare': Parent's plea after teen's death
10 Jun 2025Just weeks before his 16th birthday, Kaea Karauria was fatally stabbed at a birthday party. Video
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Amid concerns about China's falling birthrate, the 'boy sober' movement is rising
11 Jun 2025A growing number of young women in China are fed up with traditional pressure about marriage and sexism.
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How rich is your region? Housing, employment and debt compared
Ever wondered which area has the best credit scores, the most affordable homes, or the lowest unemployment.
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How and when to call in sick to work
10 Jun 2025Workplace attitudes are shifting ... RNZ spoke to five experts about what is expected of you and what you can expect from your employer.
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84-year-old fears police are 'framing him' over killing
10 Jun 2025"We're old age pensioners who aren't breaking any laws and never have," says a man who feels he is the prime suspect in a decades-old cold case.
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Trump deploys 700 Marines to LA, backs arrest of California governor
10 Jun 2025Marines are usually only deployed domestically for major events such as Hurricane Katrina and the 11 September attacks.
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'Astonishing' road rage: Campervan driver assaults elderly man on highway
10 Jun 2025The campervan driver head-butted a 71-year-old who stopped on the side of a highway.
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Gunman kills at least nine in attack on Austrian secondary school
11 Jun 2025Ten people have been killed after a shooter opened fire at a school in the Austrian city of Graz, with the shooter among the dead.
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