RNZ News (Unofficial)

📢 Two people have been arrested following an aggravated robbery in Hastings during the early hours of the morning.

📢 Auckland FC striker Sam Cosgrove has been fined and banned for two A-League games for swearing at a journalist.

📢 New Zealand boxer Joseph Parker is set to return to the ring and it could be on the undercard of the next world heavyweight title fight.

📢 A person has been taken to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition after an incident in East Auckland.

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📢 Papua New Guinea's West New Britain province governor Sasindran Muthuvel says the public is deeply frustrated with repeated armed robberies and other violent crime.

📢 The Defence Force (NZDF) is aiming to experiment with flying drones in swarms.

📢 The Education Ministry says the government will probably achieve its school attendance target by 2030 but its reading, writing and maths target is at risk.

📢 Wellington City Council is in the process of buying out one property affected by the city's April flash flooding.

📢 Final pass rates show the crucial NCEA numeracy test continues to trip up thousands of students from poor backgrounds.

📢 Descendants of Te Whakatōhea have reaffirmed their connection to an ornate woven taonga which has long been beyond their reach.

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📢 The Reserve Bank is probably about to do something that it doesn't often - hike interest rates during the final stages of an election campaign.

📢 The Aged Care Association says the private sector is crucial to the ongoing supply of aged care beds, after a scathing report by a coalition of labour unions criticised the amount of public money going to private entities.

📢 New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is defending a party ad blaming the sinking of a navy ship on "woke b******t", but is at odds with his own candidate.

📢 A security guard who worked the long weekend at Christchurch's One New Zealand Stadium says the heat inside the sun-baked venue was unbearable and unsafe.

📢 Kiwi businesses are showing an increased interest in employee share schemes, according to new research from Sharesies.

📢 People applying for jobs are often being "ghosted" by companies hiring, and it may be partly due to the increased use of AI.

📢 The government has treated councils like a "punching bag" while burdening ratepayers with unfunded infrastructure mandates, Opportunity party candidate Kayla Kingdon-Bebb has told an election forum in Wānaka.

📢 The Reserve Bank (RBNZ) is set to raise its benchmark interest rate despite previously signalling a pause, as headline inflation has fallen, and just 10 days out from the general election.

📢 A manhunt is underway for two people following reports of a robbery and car-jacking north of Wellington.

📢 The stalled opening of Waitākere Hospital's long awaited intensive care unit is a "smack in the face" for the community, a West Auckland leader says.

📢 The owners of more than 200 stolen garden gnomes and other ornaments are being sought by police after being found during a search warrant.

📢 A Wellington lawyer is worried it's becoming harder to get ACC claims approved.

📢 A new central Hamilton railway station and hourly trains to Auckland are focal in a plan proposed to revamp inter-regional passenger train service Te Huia.

📢 New Zealand First has announced a 10-point rail policy, building on its commitment to trial commuter rail in Canterbury and bring back the Southerner Train as well as commitments from the coalition already underway.

📢 The Sensible Sentencing Trust says it has removed images of Chris Hipkins, Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson from an attack advertisement, but not the message.

📢 The two major parties have narrowed the gap between them, with National dropping to 29 points and Labour remaining the same on 27 percent.

📢 A simmering feud over chickens killed by roaming dogs came to a head when a man shot his neighbour's pet in the backside.

📢 "He's dead. We stabbed him because we're Bay dogs."

📢 As the election nears, people in Ashhurst have renewed rage over being included in the Wairarapa electorate.

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📢 Eden Park is getting ready for another big summer of sport and entertainment, transforming from a rugby stadium to a cricket ground to a concert venue - and often back again - sometimes in the space of just a few days.

📢 Silver Fern livewire Maddy Gordon says she'd had enough of the constant booing when she mocked the boisterous Australian crowd in the third Test in Sydney.

📢 Up close and personal with Opportunity leader Qiulae Wong on the campaign trail discussing immigration, racist rhetoric and the country's diverse future.

📢 The United States has suspended a special visa-free travel programme for Chinese nationals visiting the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), citing national security concerns, human smuggling and other criminal activities.

📢 Dozens of dairy farmers from across the world are set to visit New Zealand next year as part of the World Jersey Conference 2027.

📢 New Zealand's property sector has a gender pay gap of almost 25 percent, the Property Council says.

📢 More established start-up companies are attracting larger investments with the first half of the year seeing record growth.

📢 Luxury retail brand Prada will close its Queen Street outlet on Wednesday, but one retail consultant isn't expecting it to have a big impact on the street.

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📢 Labour is promising to help public housing tenants buy their own homes, putting $100 a week towards their deposits under a new rent-to-buy scheme.

📢 A base jumper who became stuck on the side of an Auckland hotel by his parachute has appeared in court.

📢 Technical staff and nurses at a private hospital are striking in Hamilton today, saying some technicians are paid hundreds less than their public-sector colleagues.

📢 A child who was assaulted at a central Auckland park over the weekend is in a stable condition.

📢 Damian McKenzie is set to start at first-five for the All Blacks in their Nations Championship test against Scotland in Edinburgh - and almost certainly in tandem with fullback Beauden Barrett.

📢 David Seymour says he has been trying to work out constitutionally what will happen if resigned Labour Party candidate Kerrin Leoni wins the Tamaki Makaurau seat.

📢 Wellingtonians are finally getting home after wild weather caused chaos for airline services in and out of the capital on Monday.

📢 Any toys containing sand will soon require testing to prove they are asbestos-free before they can be sold in New Zealand.