Māni Dunlop

To Australia now where their government is inching closer to settling a nine-year-old offer by New Zealand to accept 150 refugees each year from offshore detention centres.

Australian Home Affairs… Audio

It's taken a year and a half, but New Zealand Rugby has finally reached a commercial rights agreement with the US private equity firm, Silver Lake.

Silver Lake will invest $200 million in a new… Audio

Despite being faced with abuse and attacks, a Whanganui iwi vaccination clinic is perservering with its mahi to keep its hapori safe.

The Iwi collective Te Ranga Tupua says one of its mobile clinics… Audio

Evacuations have been ordered for low-lying parts of Westport.

The Buller District Council mayor Jamie Cleine talks to Māni Dunlop about the weather situation on the West Coast Audio

Civil Defence has ordered an evacuation of low-lying parts of Westport, before the already heavy rainfall becomes more intense tonight.

A red weather warning is still in place.

Emergency personnel… Audio

Residents in the Grey District and Westland have experienced record-breaking rainfall.  

The wettest 24 hour period since 1944 was measured at Westport Airport yesterday until 9am today.   

Pictures… Audio

As of tomorrow, the wait to get a Pfizer booster dose after a second jab will drop from four months to three.

The change makes another million people aged 18 and over eligible for their third shot.

… Audio

The phased border reopening will begin at one-minute-to the 28th of February.

Māni Dunlop gets expert analysis of the plan from Otago University professor of epidemiology Michael Baker. Audio

The New Zealand border will creak open one minute before the 28th of February.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement today.

Māni Dunlop reports. Audio

Roses are red
Violets are blue 
Marlborough's hunting a thief
Is it YOU!?

Blenheim's rose garden at Pollard Park is being plundered with more than half of this summer's roses stolen.

The… Audio

Cannabis research using the Dunedin Study has found smoking weed is harmful to lung health.

Prolonged cannabis use led to over-inflated lungs, and even increased the resistance to airflow to a… Audio

Workers who lose their jobs could get 80 percent of their usual salary for up to seven months, under a proposed new government scheme.

The social unemployment insurance scheme has been designed in… Audio

Emergency management operations are on watch on the West Coast, where heavy rain has been falling since early this morning.

Some residents are being evacuated as a precaution.

Waka Kotahi says… Audio

It was a beautiful day in Te Whanganui-a-Tara yesterday -- and the small city beach at Oriental Bay was crowded with people seeking relief from the heat.

But masks and physical distancing were… Audio

St John Ambulance responded to 30 percent more mental health call outs for people under fourteen in 2021 than in 2020.

More mental health call outs occured across all age groups, a 36 percent… Audio

Despite falling numbers of youth offenders, Māori are still disproportionately represented in the figures. 

It comes as a new report reveals the number of youth offenders has fallen by more than 60… Audio

Government ministers are expected to discuss the future of border controls and the managed isolation system at today's Cabinet meeting.

While the settings have helped slow Covid-19 from entering the… Audio

Ice creams, swims and shade have been our saviours during this scorcher of a summer.

Taumarunui is set to crack 32 degrees C today - a temperature reached several times this month.

Māni Dunlop spoke… Audio

Canterbury regional council staff are using booms and a sucker truck to try capture the toxic oil flushed into Kaiapoi's rivers following a major factory blaze.

Sutton Tools went up in flames… Audio