Stories by Ben Strang

Emails and communication from the day of the record-breaking January floods have been released to RNZ.

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On the day Auckland was hit by the worst flooding event in recorded history, and the city's mayor came under fire for his inaction, Wayne Brown's diary was an empty slate.

Little more than a week ago, Neil Wagner bore the brunt of England's Bazball revolution, battered in one of the most expensive bowling spells in test cricket history.

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Auckland mayor Wayne Brown gave two direct interviews to journalists in his first month in office, of the 108 requests made by media. Audio

The road toll has soared this year and is on par with 2018, the worst year for road deaths in recent memory. Audio

The police have quietly lowered the threshold at which speed cameras ping drivers.

A mother says the government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars paying for her abusive former partner's legal claims.

Police were assaulted by someone wielding a firearm 21 times in 2021, the most ever in a single year.

A group of 91 police staff are taking a personal grievance over the way they were treated for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

Rates of injury and death caused by firearms are tracking higher than ever before, police data shows. Audio

The government does not know where the body of a New Zealand soldier killed in Ukraine is, including whether it is being held by Russians. Audio

A New Zealand darts player will become the first transgender woman to compete at the World Darts Federation World Darts Championship, to take place in England early next year. Audio

Roshan Mahanama pointed to New Zealand's long trade relationship with Sri Lanka, and called for support for the country in this critical time.

People with Covid-19 will soon be asked to quarantine at home, rather than being ushered to a managed isolation facility.

The Ministry of Health has hinted that it will look at alternative vaccines for people who react badly to the Pfizer shot.

Sources who have been working on the vaccine certificates say there are three possibilities for how they will be legally enforced.

The police hierarchy asked staff not to get vaccinated early in the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, unless they did it through the police's chosen provider.

Vaccine certificates are likely to be granted to people without a person needing any actual proof they've been vaccinated.

The Ministry of Health says it doesn't recognise vaccines a person has received overseas.

It is unlikely that people will be legally required to provide a vaccine passport to business owners in order to use their services.

There has been a 49 percent increase in injuries recorded as a result of firearms crime in Auckland city over the past year and a half, compared with the two years previous.

People are flouting contact tracing systems by signing with fake names and numbers, and new rules coming into effect at midnight are powerless to stop the practice.