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How do New Zealanders celebrate New Years Eve? Many cities and towns offer outdoor concerts finishing with fireworks. Auckland has brought in 3 tonnes of sand for the Britomart Beach Party. There will be live music, dancing and, at midnight, firework...
The annual New Zealand Music Awards were held tonight in Auckland. The popular singer-songwriter/guitarist, Kimbra, returned from Canada for the event. She had nominations in many categories and won five of these. She also won the most important awar...
The government is again looking at a plan to move the South Island ferry terminal from Picton to Clifford Bay, about 50km south of Picton. This is a shorter distance from Wellington to Christchurch. It would cut 110 minutes off the time by rail and 8...
The Royal Commission Report on the tragedy at the Pike River coal mine was released today. On 19th November 2010, 29 men died in an explosion in the Pike River mine. Listen to November 20th 2010 to hear about this. Between July and November last year...
Although it is Spring now, the last few days have been very cold in parts of New Zealand. In some grape growing areas, the temperatures have dropped to minus 5 degrees at night. During the spring, new leaf buds develop on the vines and frost can kill...
For the last two weeks, the coroner has been listening to evidence about trying to rescue people from the CTV building after the earthquake. The CTV building collapsed during the February 2011 earthquake and caught on fire. More than a hundred people...
NCEA means National Certificate in Educational Achievement. Level 1 is for Year 11 students, Level 2 for Year 12 and Level 3 is for the final high school year Year 13. 46,000 students in New Zealand sat Level 1 English exams this morning. These are c...
Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, arrived in New Zealand last weekend for a 6 day visit. The visit is part of the Queens 60th Jubilee. It is too far for the Queen to travel now but her son and grandson have been visiting countries in the Commonwe...
Yesterday morning, New Zealanders were lucky to see a partial solar eclipse. This occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth. In Queensland, Australia, there was a total eclipse total darkness for about two minutes. A partial eclipse m...
The Labour Party held their annual conference over the weekend. More than 500 members attended. A member is someone who pays a membership fee to belong to the Labour Party. This includes the 34 Labour Members of Parliament. The Leader of the Oppositi...
First check back to November 18th about the Labour Party conference. During the conference last weekend, David Cunnliffe refused to say if he supported David Shearer as Leader of the Opposition. This looked as if Mr Cunnliffe wanted to challenge Mr S...
Three months ago, Mt Tongariro erupted, sending a cloud of ash into the sky. Today the same thing happened and it happened suddenly, without any early signs or noise. Again it sent a cloud of ash into the sky, about 5000m high. Listen to August 8th 2...
The Prime Minister, John Key, attended the ASEAN meeting in Cambodia earlier this week. ASEAN is the Association of South-East Asian Nations. There were many South -East Asian leaders and others who are interested in Asia, including President Obama a...
The Lord of the Rings author was JRR Tolkien. He was a Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University in England. He died in 1973, aged 81. He signed the movie rights to a company in Hollywood in 1969. This included rights to sell...
A special AirNZ plane, painted with Hobbit characters, brought Hobbit actors to Wellington today in time for tomorrows premiere of the movie. It is called The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. This will be the first of three films of the Hobbit. Like Th...
