New Zealand Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from New Zealand with our JSON API.

Get API key for the New Zealand Nation News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from New Zealand.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=nz&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 22428,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7d8bbe26122c5d9ae0ba1db0b4989cb3",
            "title": "Ōhura's state of emergency lifts, but locals face long road to recovery",
            "description": "Some residents have \"lost everything\", after floodwaters swept through the town a week ago, the district's civil defence controller says.",
            "content": "Some Ōhura residents have \"lost everything\", after floodwaters swept through the town a week ago, the district's civil defence controller says.\nFlooding cut off the remote King Country settlement, forcing some locals to escape in chest-high waters in... [2075 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/emergencies_local/593455/ohura-s-state-of-emergency-lifts-but-locals-face-long-road-to-recovery",
            "image": "https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--k0nsEQ-m--/t_tohu-badge-facebook/v1776598528/4JPXMLP_20260419_100610_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T07:32:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "79971a6b38016604095f88394b17172a",
                "name": "RNZ",
                "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "169a48dd69be38b545de6586e920a1b7",
            "title": "Auckland boy racer manslaughter convict Micheal Ngamo named, prison sentence lengthened",
            "description": "A boy racer who hit an eight-months-pregnant teen, killing her unborn baby, has been able to keep his identity secret for the past two and a half years –...",
            "content": "“I never thought in my life I would hurt someone in this way,” he said in a letter of apology to his second victim. “I pray you find peace. Sorry for what I have done.”\nIt mirrored, in part, an apology letter he had written to his first victim last y... [7213 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/auckland-boy-racer-manslaughter-convict-micheal-ngamo-named-prison-sentence-lengthened/Y66IK7N7BVDPNC5WH2SKWTG7FM/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/Z27OQDWGYJGUTPQJVYMQ3JEWJE.jpg?auth=0768befa67347219aafeef6a0e4c3bdbe7e65cb01b88ac94d1c061c0c4cb98c7&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&focal=670%2C847&smart=false",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T06:31:37Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1db79faa1e8b3d782057b3b871f53dff",
            "title": "Manurewa assault: Victim seriously injured after alleged attack with weapon",
            "description": "A person dropped off outside shops in South Auckland this afternoon is believed to have been assaulted with a weapon. Police were called to a Manurewa...",
            "content": "Police are making inquiries to locate those involved.\nThe victim was dropped close to where a person was stabbed multiple times at Manurewa Railway Station last week.\nIn that incident, the victim was approached by a man who repeatedly stabbed them be... [349 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/manurewa-assault-victim-seriously-injured-after-alleged-attack-with-weapon/YCCY76GTPRDUDD72LTWS54W3ZQ/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/QVVK67NBZFEG7DVEWWSCU5MEFA.jpg?auth=7207927ff44c25c6c834c2b9480d2b955400113133c756d3231f5d7582750340&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T05:04:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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