Mike Sanford

Three lucky Lotto players from Auckland, Hawera and Queenstown will be celebrating in style after each winning $333,333 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Smart Superette in Auckland, Pak N Save Hawera in Hawera and Night n Day Church Street in Q

National’s promising a short-term package of tax cuts – worth about $4.7 billion – to kick start the economy. Leader Judith Collins and finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith announced the policy in Wellington this morning. Watch the announcement Here: The changes would be made by significant increases

Heavy rain about the Tararua Range easing. Westerly gales in the far south. Heavy rain about the Tararua Range should ease this (Friday) morning as the cold front, which brought snow, heavy rain and gale northwesterlies to parts of central and southern New Zealand, moves away to the north. Meanwhile

Wondering about who stands for what? Welcome to RNZ’s go-to guide for party policy this election. We’ve put together a directory with some brief information about what the parties represented in the last Parliament would do if they were re-elected. Labour leader Jacinda Ardern, National leader Judit

One Bay down, one to go! Rugby Southland released the Stags team for this weekends match against Bay Of Plenty. Our SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags take on Bay Of Plenty this Saturday in Rotorua Kick Off 7.05pm Live Sky Sport 1 The team: Joe Walsh Greg Pleasants-Tate Siate Tokolahi Raymond Tatafu Mana

Police are providing few details about the incident other than revealing charges have been brought over production of the class B substance. Emergency services were called to the Rothesay Place house in the suburb of Rockdale shortly before 1.30pm last Wednesday following reports of an explosion. Fi

There are seven new cases of Covid-19 today, all in managed isolation facilities. In a statement this afternoon, the Ministry of Health says there are no new community cases. It says with the exception of one arrival from Uzbekistan, all new cases were detected as a result of day 3 testing and are n

The economy has shrunk by a record amount and fell into its first recession in a decade as it was battered by the government’s moves to eliminate Covid-19, but it will already be on the road to recovery. Official numbers show gross domestic product (GDP) fell a seasonally adjusted 12.2 percent for t