Conservationists are calling on the Department of Conservation to ramp up its response to what's being called a mega mast, which could unleash a plague of predators on threatened native species.

Time now for the second in our series of te reo Maori pieces where RNZ's Shannon Haunui-Thompson and I talk about kupu and kiwaha, words and phrases, with a summer flavour.

Internal Affairs has released the country's most popular baby names for 2018, and again Oliver and Charlotte have topped the list.

New Zealand's population is ticking closer and closer to five million and It's estimated the country's population increases by one person every 5 minutes and 26 seconds.

Surfers aged between nine and 72 years old have been rubbing shoulders with World Surf League competitor Ricardo Christie at the National Championships in Taranaki this week.

A group of friends scrambled down a rocky cliff face to rescue to dolphins stranded on rocks in Wellington Habour yesterday. Melissa Prowse sayse about 50 dolphins were playing in the harbour but two were left stranded when the tide went out.

Water rights campaigners are strongly criticising a Christchurch city councillor's suggestion that the council get into the water bottling business.

The clock is ticking to solve Eden Park's financial woes before the guarantee on its multi-million-dollar loan runs out later this year.

Auckland Mayor Phil Goff spoke to Craig McCulloch and invited the Eden Park Trust board to make its case for a ratepayer bailout after an independent report laid bare its mounting financial woes.

An elderly gay man says same-sex relationships are often kept under wraps in retirement villages - and it's creating needless stress for people who deserve better.

A group of Chinese workers brought to New Zealand for work are hunting for somewhere to stay after they were kicked out of their South Auckland accommodation. The men were trespassed on Monday and a security guard is now at the locked entrance to the property. They say they paid tens of thousands of dollars to a man named Peter Li, and were given contracts for a construction industry labour company called National Personnel Ltd.