Charlotte Cook

The Health Star Rating system on food packaging is going to more accurately reflect sugar and salt content.

The system - which is designed to give people nutritional information at a glance - is… Audio

The country's so-called Road to Zero strategy is yet to to bring down transport deaths.

Waka Kotahi is proposing slower state highway speed limits, saying it's the best short-term solution to fatal… Audio

The police watchdog has found significant failings in the way officers deal with and investigate fraud complaints - leaving the public with little confidence they'll be taken seriously.

The… Audio

Frustrations are flaring one week into this year's U.N. climate summit in Egypt, over a lack of progress on climate goals.

Past pledges that have not been honoured include making steep cuts to… Audio

Women's refuge says the number of family harm incidents is increasing every year - with police being called out to one every three minutes.

The Police's annual report showed more than 175,000 family… Audio

Electricity companies need to focus on their customers, not just their shareholders, says the newly established consumer advocacy council.

This morning, unions and a climate group released a report… Audio

Senior doctors are disturbed half of the country has unmet dental needs - demonstrating the extreme demand for free oral healthcare.

A new report has found publicly funded dental hospitalisations… Audio

A group of protesters are picketing outside the Iranian embassy in Wellington, condemning the country's brutal crackdown of demonstrations against the regime.

The protesters say more than 240 people… Audio

Te Whatu Ora, Health NZ has released its plans for the next two years as it figures out how to replace 20 individual district ones that existed under the previous structure.  

The interim plan has a… Audio

Soldiers on the front line in Ukraine say they have no idea why only the body of the American man killed alongside Dominic Abelen is being repatriated but not the New Zealander.

Joshua Jones was… Audio

An independent panel on local government thinks councils are losing the trust of their communities, and their consultation processes are excluding many people from participating. It comes amid three… Audio

Questions are being asked about why an American soldier who died alongside Dominic Abelen was able to be repatriated, but not the New Zealander. 

Abelen and Joshua Jones were killed in August when… Audio

Cruise ships are back, visiting ports around the country bringing with them more covid.

Health NZ is refusing to say if there are Covid-19 cases on the cruise ship Celebrity Eclipse currently docked… Audio

National population growth is predicted to slow to less than 1 percent each year for the next decade.

But what growth remains will be highest in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty.

And… Audio

Metservice has issued several severe weather warnings the first of which comes into force this evening.

Metservice says Aotearoa is heading into an unsettled period of weather with heavy rain kicking… Audio

Thousands of community nurses are striking again over their employers' inability to deliver pay parity after a year of failed negotiations.

Primary Health Care and Plunket nurses have the same… Audio

A New Zealand couple who were held in Iran for four months are extremely relieved to be free.

Iranian authorities stopped Topher Richwhite and Bridget Thackwray from leaving the country for four… Audio

The Prime Minister's electorate office in Morningside was attacked overnight.

Police are still at the scene investigating what happened, and say a 57-year-old woman has been arrested in relation to… Audio

On the 9th of December almost three years ago, seven pilots took matters into their own hands to rescue people from the erupting Whakaari Island.

47 people were on the island that day, 22 of them… Audio

A new survey of students at the co-located Shirley Boys' and Avonside Girls' schools show many are being sexually harassed and assaulted.

Fewer than half the boys took part in the survey, but of… Audio