Stories by Niva Chittock

Residents of a Canterbury town have not had a reliable source of safe drinking water for nearly a year - and three weeks ago began showering in a community hall.

Tokomaru students had been back in flood-repaired classrooms for just weeks, while two residents lost a campervan they were living in while their house was fixed after last year's floods.

With vaccine mandates for many workers lifted in under two weeks and QR code scanning soon to be a thing of the past, RNZ took to the streets of Ōtautahi to find out what people thought of the…

A group who helped to run a Waikato car meet, in which some of the attendees attacked a milk tanker, say they do not condone that behaviour.

An investigation has been launched into the smashing of a milk tanker's windscreen and milk being tipped onto a road at the weekend.

A shake-up to the country's waste system is hoped to cut down the near 13 million tonnes of waste New Zealand sends to landfill every year.

A conservation group is calling on the government to push for mass environmental destruction, or ecocide, to be declared a crime by the International Criminal Court.

Protesters illegally camped at Christchurch's Cranmer Square for nearly four weeks have been asked to leave by Thursday.

Residents who live near the occupied Cranmer Square anti-mandate protest in Christchurch say the ongoing disruption and noise is callous and selfish.

The Ministry for the Environment is considering creating a national database and fund to protect vulnerable old landfill sites.

A coronial court heard from the Human Rights Commission and the terrorist's lawyer, in the final day of a scope hearing on the Christchurch terror attacks yesterday.

The main focus at the hearing yesterday was on the impact of digital platforms, and this morning the terrorist's lawyer and the Human Rights Commission are expected to make submissions.

Islamic groups and first responders are expected to make submissions to the coroner's scope hearing on the Christchurch terror attacks today.

Decimated after two years of Covid-19 restrictions, the hospitality sector describes the latest financial support being offered by the government as encouraging but too late for some to survive.

Residents are being asked to keep it down as Christchurch City Council had a record number of noise complaints lodged at the end of last year.

Cranmer Square residents say Christchurch City Council is quick to send notices for branches hanging outside their property, but is sitting quiet while protesters are on their doorstep.

"...tay away from visibly oiled areas. Residual oil is likely to remain in the Cam/Ruataniwha [River] and Kaiapoi River upstream from the Williams Street bridge in Kaiapoi for the next few weeks."

New Zealand will be taking part in commemorating 50 years of the United Nations Environment Programme this year, with a delegation possibly travelling to Kenya for the event.

The Women's Cricket World Cup is set to begin next month in Aotearoa, after being postponed by a year because of the pandemic.

A group of non-governmental organisations are calling for Aoteroa's natural wetlands to be doubled in size by 2050 - only 10 percent, or 249,000 hectares, of Aotearoa's wetlands remain untouched.

A body has been recovered from inside a submerged ute in Lake Dunstan, near Cromwell.

The Salvation Army is just $370,000 short of the $9.9m needed to build a new community hub in Frankton to support the area's rapidly growing community.

Brian Tamaki's Destiny Church and the Freedoms and Rights Coalition have taken up residence in a central Christchurch park - and they're not doing it quietly.

New Zealand had the hottest national average temperature last year, but the single highest temperature recorded in the country remains unbeaten.

Tamaki has been charged three times after speaking at large protests in breach of Auckland's level three rules.