Accessible News

Top storiesNew ZealandPoliticsBusinessEntertainmentSportsWorld
People sitting down looking at their phones.
Caption:The National Party says cell phones were getting in the way of student achievement.Photo credit:Unsplash / Robin WorrallNational Party leader Christopher Luxon says countries like Australia already have similar bans that worked.RNZ / Sam Rillstone
Year 9 students at Glendowie College, Auckland.
Methven High School.
A lecture theatre at Massey University’s Auckland campus.
Generic Library / Students
Tiltshift effect of prescription bottle for Oxycodone tablets and pills on wooden table for opioid epidemic illustration
Bridge
Māui and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders spokesperson, Christine Rose and Minister Shane Jones.
Wellington mayor Andrew Little.
Coogee Beach shark attack victim Leah Stewart with her daughter before the June 2026 shark attack
Richard Chambers
Juan Manuel Leon Sandoval’s case was heard in the Hamilton District Court.
A soldier looks through binoculars during combat exercises and training of the navy of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the waters around the Taiwan Island, 5 August, 2022. T