Tag: Auckland

RNZ News A scene examination is continuing at a construction site in central Auckland after a fatal shooting there shocked the city yesterday morning. The gunman,...

By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog My daughter came into the kitchen early today to tell me her friends were downtown in Auckland...

RNZ News Three people have been killed in a shooting in Auckland central business district today, including the gunman. Six people were also wounded, including two...

RNZ News New Zealand's Media Freedom Council has called Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown's exclusion of some media outlets from his budget speech today "unacceptable". In an...

RNZ News A state of local emergency has been declared in Aotearoa New Zealand's largest city Auckland today as heavy rain and thunderstorms affect the...

RNZ News New Zealand civil defence staff have sent out text alerts to residents in North and West Auckland today to avoid unecessary travel as...

RNZ news A state of emergency has been declared in Northland, Auckland, Thames-Coromandel and this morning Ōpōtiki and Tairāwhiti as Cyclone Gabrielle starts to wreak...

By Red Tsounga Another house done, and onto the next . . . Volunteers working in Mount Albert community over the past few days helping...

By Nick Young of Greenpeace My family and I are lucky to have come through it unscathed, but my neighbourhood in Titirangi has been ravaged. Many...

RNZ News The belt of torrential rain which has brought flooding and slips across northern New Zealand is currently mainly centred over the Waikato and...

ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The extraordinary flood event Auckland experienced on the night of January 27, the...

RNZ News Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has acknowledged the way Aucklanders have come together and opened their homes to those in need, with the New...

RNZ News Mayor Wayne Brown has shut down criticism that he was too slow in declaring a state of emergency after severe flooding in Auckland,...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Tony Fala Community organisers representing multiple Aotearoa struggles gathered at the Ponsonby Community Centre in Tāmaki Makaurau last Sunday to celebrate the...

By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter The race for the Auckland mayoralty ends this weekend in the Aotearoa New Zealand local elections and polls indicate...

RNZ News A woman has been arrested for the alleged murder of two young children whose remains were discovered in suitcases in Manurewa, South Auckland,...

By Stephen Forbes of Local Democracy Reporting Despite total borrowings reaching $11.1 billion, the Auckland Council Group’s latest results show it has managed to weather...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Celebrating Rotuman Language Week in Auckland's Kingsland today took the form of colourful and thrilling cultural dances. The dances were performed at...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter Explosive new data shows the sea level is rising twice as fast as previously thought in...

By Mara Cepeda in Manila Philippine presidential candidate and Vice-President Leni Robredo issued her marching orders for the crucial homestretch of the election campaign before...

RNZ News New Zealand's Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, says covid-19 case numbers have passed their peak in Auckland, the country's largest city, but...

RNZ News An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city's dire hospital staffing shortage in Aotearoa New Zealand's current covid-19...