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The government is rolling out a daily free lunch trial starting with 30 primary and intermediate schools from the beginning of next year.

The new initiative will be piloted at 30 primary and… Video, Audio

A programme to feed hungry kids with a free lunch at school each day is going to be trialled in 30 schools next year.

The Prime Minister announced the initiative at the launch of the Child and Youth… Video, Audio

Seven eggs from the world's last two remaining northern white rhinos have been successfully fertilized artifically, raising hopes of saving the endangered animals. Serena Chaudhry reports. Video, Audio

The Green Party is raising questions about whether anything was promised in exchange for the $150,000 given to the National Party by a Chinese-owned company.

And it says its yet another reason to ban… Video, Audio

After a 10-year long battle, a collection of taonga left on board Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour will be returned, on loan, to the Tairāwhiti region after 250 years.

The taonga, which include… Video, Audio

New Zealand has voted against giving new international trade protections to endangered mako sharks at a world wildlife conference.

Wildlife experts from around the world are at the at the conference… Video, Audio

The government is scrapping changes brought in in 2015 to try stop excessive pay increases for MPs, labelling them a failure that have had the opposite effect.

Last year Parliament froze MPs'… Video, Audio

Mark Lundy's last-ditch appeal against his convictions for murdering his wife and daughter 19 years ago has wrapped up its first day in the Supreme Court.

Lundy was convicted in 2002 of the murder of… Video, Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

A Wellington apartment owner facing skyrocketing insurance premiums is demanding the government take over the natural disaster insurance industry.

Wellington City Council this week hosted the first… Audio

A neuropathologist has told a jury a Northland toddler died of a "catastrophic" head injury so severe the young girl could never have survived it.

Two-year-old Ariah Roberts died in her home at… Video, Audio

The former Cabinet Minister Clare Curran, who was sacked from cabinet a year ago, is to quit Parliament at the next election.

She has been Labour's MP for Dunedin South since 2008. Ms Curran resigned… Video, Audio

Māori suicide prevention workers say they are undervalued and underfunded and they're pleading for more support as Māori suicide rates reach record highs.

New figures show 685 people in Aotearoa… Video, Audio

A $150,000 donation to the National Party has raised fresh questions about foreign influence and who should be allowed to give money to political parties.

National received the money in 2016 from a… Audio

The death of veteran actor Ray Henwood at age 82 is almost the end of an era, according to playwright and old friend Sir Roger Hall.

The welsh-born actor appeared in many of Sir Rogers plays… Audio

Migrant students left high and dry after their business school went into liquidation say they're disgusted that they've been told to pay more money.

Last week the Kiwi Institute of Training and… Video, Audio

The head of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage looks likely to keep her job despite a security breach exposing hundreds of people's private details to fraudsters.

Bernadette Cavanagh revealed the… Audio

Suicide rates have risen yet again - with 685 people dying by suicide in the past year. That's 17 more lives lost.

Arthur Harawira lost his son to suicide when he was just 15 years old, and though it… Audio

A family of nine that fled Gloriavale says the Christian community tried to separate their family to stop them from leaving. Mr and Mrs Ben-Canaan, who only want to be known by their last names, were… Video, Audio

Te Ao Māori is in mourning for one of its unsung heroes. The Ngāti Hine elder, Pita Paraone, died early on Monday morning in Auckland Hospital.

The 73-year-old served for many years as a public… Video, Audio