New Zealand Headlines: your city's news, weather warnings, quakes & roads
New Zealand's news, and your city's: from Whangārei to Invercargill.
NOT A GOVERNMENT APP: NZ News Today is independent. It does not represent the New Zealand Government, Parliament, any council or government agency, and is not affiliated with them. Every source is listed under SOURCES.
NEWS
By topic (politics, business, money and housing, Te Ao Māori, Pacific, rural, weather, rugby, cricket and more) and by city, with subscriber stories marked. A notification at most once a day for what you follow, never at night. Tap a term under a headline (OCR, KiwiSaver) to see what it means.
TODAY
For your city: MetService's severe weather warnings and watches, with alerts; the weather; earthquakes near you, with an alert when one is felt; volcanic alert levels, with an alert when one rises; state highway closures and the passes; tonight's southern lights in the South Island; the NZ dollar and the OCR; the next long weekend.
CALENDAR AND LEARN
Public holidays with Mondayisation, Matariki and your region's anniversary day, daylight saving and tax dates, with reminders. A te reo Māori word a day, and "New Zealand explained": 65 terms.
SOURCES
Government information, and its official source:
Weather warnings: MetService, https://www.metservice.com/warnings/home
Earthquakes, volcanoes: GeoNet, https://www.geonet.org.nz/
Roads: NZTA, https://www.journeys.nzta.govt.nz/
OCR: Reserve Bank of New Zealand, https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/ and https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/news-and-events/how-we-release-information/ocr-decision-dates-and-financial-stability-report-dates-to-feb-2028
Holidays: Employment New Zealand, https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/
Matariki: legislation.govt.nz. Daylight saving: dia.govt.nz
Tax dates: Inland Revenue, https://www.ird.govt.nz/index/key-dates
Winter Energy Payment: workandincome.govt.nz
Government releases: Beehive, https://www.beehive.govt.nz/
Emergencies: Civil Defence, https://getready.govt.nz/
New Zealand Government: https://www.govt.nz/
Aurora forecast: NOAA SWPC, spaceweather.gov
Exchange rates: European Central Bank, ecb.europa.eu
Everything else, and its source:
News: RNZ, NZ Herald, Stuff, The Post, The Press, Waikato Times, 1News, Otago Daily Times, Newsroom, The Spinoff, Newstalk ZB, BusinessDesk, NBR, interest.co.nz, Rural News, Farmers Weekly, The Country, Te Ao Māori News, Waatea News, Gisborne Herald, SunLive, Crux, Northern Advocate, Bay of Plenty Times, Rotorua Daily Post, Hawke's Bay Today, Whanganui Chronicle, Beehive.govt.nz, NZ Doctor, Science Media Centre, Pacific Media Network
Through Google News: Reuters, AP, BBC, Bloomberg, The Guardian, ABC News (Australia), Al Jazeera, The Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Times, New York Times, CNN, ESPN, ESPNcricinfo, RugbyPass, All Blacks, NZ Cricket
Weather: Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com), MET Norway. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited in the app.
WHAT IT CAN'T DO
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Novedades
NZ News Today 3.0, rebuilt from scratch: New Zealand's news by section and city; Today with MetService warnings, GeoNet earthquakes and volcano levels, highways and passes, the NZ dollar and the OCR, and the southern lights; a calendar of holidays and anniversary days; and a te reo Māori word a day.