Charlotte Cook

The Waitaki District Council is taking control of the cordon around the fire damaged village today but access will remain restricted for some time. 

The fire in the Lake Ōhau village which started… Audio

A man who tested positive for Covid-19 nearly a week after leaving managed isolation could have had an unusually long incubation of the virus.

 The man flew to Christchurch from India on the 27… Audio

A man who tested positive for Covid-19 nearly a week after leaving managed isolation is believed to have had an unusually long incubation of the virus.

He returned from India on 27 August and tested… Audio

A former student at Dilworth school in Auckland has spoken of his grief and anger at the abuse that went on there and says it was the seven, eight and nine year olds who suffered the most.

Seven men… Audio

Police are investigating corruption at Rimutaka Prison allegedly in connection with gangs.

The investigation has been ongoing since July,

RNZ's corrections reporter, Charlotte Cook spoke to Māni… Audio

The search for two New Zealand men who were onboard a cattle ship in the East China Sea remains suspended, as a second typhoon hits the region.

On Wednesday morning, the ship carrying 43 crew members… Audio

Violence against prison guards appears to be getting worse, despite a drop in the number of inmates.

There were 355 reported assaults resulting in injury in the last 12 months to May, a 49 percent… Audio

Wellington's famous cat, Mittens, is facing some Covid-19 restrictions of his own.

The fluffy ginger feline is known for appearing around the capital and has most recently found fame on the New… Audio

The Health Minister gave New Zealanders a serve yesterday for peddling nasty rumours and misinformation relating to the current Covid-19 cluster.

Tech commentator Paul Brislen says a telling off is… Audio

There are two new confirmed cases at cool store company Americold - one is a contractor who might have worked at more than one location.

That brings the total number of Americold staff with Covid-19… Audio

The Auckland cold store company Americold NZ has confirmed three more employees have the Covid-19 virus.

There are now four members off staff from the Mt Wellington store with the virus.

RNZ… Audio

The cold store company in Auckland where one worker has tested postive for covid is Americold NZ.

The worker is from their Mt Wellington plant which has now been closed down, while a second of their… Audio

Fire engines were called this morning to an isolation hotel on the Terrace in Wellington.

Reporter Charlotte Cook is outside the Grand Mercure hotel. Audio

Economists believe the huge wage subsidy program will have prevented a dramatic rise in the unemployment rate when new figures are released this morning.

The June quarter numbers mark the first… Audio

Meanwhile, New Zealanders in Melbourne are struggling as the light at the end of the tunnel gets pushed further away with a tighter Covid-19 lockdown.

For many people, it's another extension to the… Audio

So what do people in the Palmerston North electorate think about their soon-to-be former MP and what's come to light today?

RNZ reporter Charlotte Cook and cameraman Dom Thomas visited the area. Video, Audio

While thirty deportees are expected to leave Australia today on a chartered flight back to New Zealand, others remain locked up with no end in sight.

Those being held at Yongah Hill detention centre… Audio

The Privacy Commissioner believes laws have been broken by the National Party MP and former Party president who leaked Covid-19 patient information. The MP Hamish Walker and Michelle Boag last night… Audio

Wild weather has been lashing Wellington's south coast , with gusts of up to 100-kilometres an hour, and six-metre swells are expected.

The worst weather coincided with the high tide in the early… Audio

Wellington's South Coast is taking a battering as a strong southerly sweeps up the country.

The Antarctic blast is packing some nasty weather, with winds rising to a severe gale and gusting 120… Audio