In part two, proposed citizen arrest laws are proving unpopular, with the Police Association being the latest to object.

New Zealand Customs has warned tobacco smuggling is becoming more organised, large-scale and sophisticated, with the government pledging to stop the country following Australia into tobacco gangland ...

Comments in Apia today by prime ministers of Samoa and NZ indicate the compensation amount for the Manawanaui disaster may still be in flux ...

Wallace Chapman and producer José Barbosa preview tonight's instalment of The Panel.

World & Pacific News for Monday 16 March 2026. Previous Episode: Saturday, 14 March 2026; RNZ Pacific News at 4pm for 16 March 2026 ...

Japan and Australia said on Monday they were not planning to send navy vessels to the Middle East to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, after US President Donald Trump called on allies to ...

Conservation groups want action to protect dolphins off Canterbury's coast, following reports that 14 of 24 dolphin deaths ...

Waiheke Island's only respite care house for kids with disabilities has closed, leaving parents who booked their children in for school holiday programmes and overnight stays in the lurch. Spectrum ...

A prolonged war in the Middle East could see inflation in New Zealand hit 3.7 percent in a worse case scenario. The Finance Minister says the government is focused on mitigating the impact of the war ...

United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about the UK assessing its options to secure the Strait of Hormuz, as well as an activist group in the UK which has admitted to a "mass ...

A group of big energy consumers says power prices need to hold steady this winter with businesses already shouldering cost increases driven by war in the Middle East. The Major Electricity Users Group ...

A man who has twice been ruled insane after committing two separate killings can now be named. RNZ can reveal the man is Leslie Raymond Parr who killed two people more than two decades apart - ...