Finance Minister Nicola Willis speaks about KiwiRail cancelling its mega Cook Strait ferry contract with the South Korean shipyard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. Video / Mark Mitchell

Muriwai firefighters Dave van Zwanenberg and Craig Stevens were honoured at a ceremony one year after their deaths during Cyclone Gabrielle.

Labour leader Chris Hipkins is questioned over his government's $1.2b funding to councils for the Three Waters assets. Video / Mark Mitchell

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks about his meeting with government CEOs and the intentions around public sector cuts. Video / Mark Mitchell

Local Government Minister Simeon Brown on Wellington's water issues. Video / Mark Mitchell

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Local Government Minister Simeon Brown announce details of the legislation to repeal Labour’s Three Waters reforms. Video / Mark Mitchell

Colourful clouds explode over West Auckland as a large crowd gathers to partake in the Krishna Holi festival of colours at the Hare Krishna temple in Kumeū. Video / NZHerald

Coalition parties see post-Waitangi boost. Non-MP Green Party member to challenge Swarbrick for leadership. Seventeen killed in Rafah strikes in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his military to prepare to evacuate more than one million civillians from a war-torn city in Gaza, house valuations are expected to drop, scrub fires continue as further restrictions come into place and Chinese new year begins.

Christopher Luxon on Act’sTreaty Principle Bill. Video / Mark Mitchell

A look back at all the action we caught on video from Waitangi Day 2024.

MPs, officials and honoured guests spoke at the Waitangi Day dawn service at Te Whare Rūnanga Video / Whakaata Māori / Newstalk ZB

NZ First MP Shane Jones speaks to the media at Waitangi.

Both teens who went missing in the Akatarawa Forest Park were found uninjured. Video / Mark Mitchell

Lakeside Concert Charitable Trust chairman Alex Wilson speaks to Local Democracy Reporting at Saturday’s concert. Video / Laura Smith

Investigators on the scene of a blaze at a South Auckland car wreckers. Te Pāti Māori arrive at Waitangi treaty grounds. PM Chris Luxon's ties to tobacco companies under the microscope.

Chloe Swarbrick stands in hopes to replace James Shaw as Green party co-leader. Greta Thunberg has her charges dropped and children all around country are feeling the cost of living as families go without.

The Cauty family have laid a complaint with the Ministry of Education over their son Spencer’s treatment. Video / NZ Herald

Auckland University calls in the lawyers over Ashley Bloomfield scam, Australian officials to brief the Government on Aukus developments and why Airbnb could be forced to cut its services in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / DW / NZHerald

Georgina Campbell explains Wellington's severe regional water shortage. Video / Mark Mitchell

Police Minister Mark Mitchell admitted that he got it wrong yesterday, when he stated that the government's goal of 500 new cops would be achieved over three years rather than two. Video / Mark Mitchell

Winston Peters and Judith Collins jet to Australia, new documentary a wake-up call for Piha and a bright prediction for Auckland’s CBD in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / Getty Images / Parliament TV / NZHerald

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon admits new Associate Health Minister Casey Costello was wrong when she made statements about increases in excise tax on tobacco products. Video / Mark Mitchell

Greens co-leader James Shaw announces he is standing down from his role in March. Video / Mark Mitchell

The Green Party are due to hold a press conference at 11am today. Video / NZ Herald

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealand would pause funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency until Foreign Minister Winston Peters was satisfied it was appropriate to continue contributing to the aid operation after alleged links between 12 of its staffers and Hamas. Video /Mark Mitchell

MPs are back with plenty on the to-do list, Wellington's water woes and ANZ’s latest scam warning for customers in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZHerald

A fire in a block of shops in Auckland’s Manurewa is being treated as suspicious. Video / Hayden Woodward

Emergency services responded to a sudden death at 11.23 last night involving an electric scooter rider on Ian McKinnon Drive in Eden Terrace. Video / Hayden Woodward

People gathered in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, and protested the Government’s decision to deploy New Zealand personnel to join US-led attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Video / Dean Purcell