Hannah Zwartz' Gardeners Gift Guide
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas is fast approaching, and if you're looking for a gift for the gardeners in your life, Hann...
Cats with Jobs
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many of our beloved feline pets love a good, long, lazy snooze. But there are quite a few across the...
Ben Shattuck - The History of Sound
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The History of Sound is the award-winning book by Ben Shattuck, set to hit the big screen this month...
A workplace guide for menopause
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many, conversations about menopause and its effects are difficult, perhaps none more so than wit...
The ring of fire with Graham Leonard
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ring of fire is more than just a Johnny Cash song, and it affects us here in the Pacific. But wh...
Chasing the scoop in a war zone
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turning her caustic gaze to the moral delima of reporting on someone else's misery, is journalist an...
Grassroots film wins big at NZ Screen Awards
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An historical account of the battle of Ōrākau took the prize for Best Film in a pool of audience f...
Elodie Harper - Boudicca's Daughter
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed British author and ancient Rome nerd Elodie Harper has turned her attention to Boudicca an...
Life in the extreme: Radiation swallowing fungi
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1986 the world watched in horror as radiation spewed from reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nu...
Professor Robert Weinkove: Cutting edge cancer treatment
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Taken as a group, blood cancers are the fifth most common type of cancer in New Zealand - affecting ...
This weekend in sport
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of football news this weekend and fresh off the back of Liam Lawson's re-signing in Fo...
Susan Edmunds: Open banking
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Banking done better is the promise behind Open Banking which started in New Zealand this week. It's ...
Latest from Europe & the US
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ukrainian and European officials have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "wasting time" aft...
Reinstated: Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ousted Te Pati Maori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has been awarded a temporary court order to reinstate h...
The reality of rates caps
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of ratepayers will welcome it but reduced services, delayed repairs and outdated sports grounds...
UN on racial discrimination in New Zealand
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva has expressed concern ove...
Kate Williams: From law firm to flower field
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Williams did a 180 on her career and she couldn't be happier. She runs her Canterbury flower fa...
Restoring NZ's link to the Titanic
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A grave in a Christchurch cemetery serves as a reminder to a love lost in one of the world's most fa...
A taniwha tale with children's author Gavin Bishop
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning children's book writer and illustrator, Gavin Bishop has over 70 books to show for the...
Jordi Webber: From Rotorua to Ancient Rome
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kiwi actor and musician Jordi Webber has just joined the cast of the New Zealand-filmed series Spart...
Easy Christmas prep with chef Del Holland
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our food regular Del Holland is back this week to get us cracking on Christmas prep.
Hira Nathan: Living a more intentional life
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An electrician by day, best-selling writer Hira Nathan's latest book is a bilingual journal about us...
Andrew Williams: Composing in Te Reo
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Welsh man has won the waiata category in the Compose Aotearoa! national choral composition competi...
Gina Rippon: The Lost Girls of Autism
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned British brain scientist Gina Rippon delves into emerging science in The Lost Girls of Autis...
Baby poo and long-term health
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No one looks forward to a dirty nappy, but poo samples collected by parents for the UK's Baby Biome ...
Stranger Things Kiwi star Nell Fisher
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The final season of Stranger Things started dropping on Thursday, featuring 14 year old London-base...
Star Trek Lego
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lego's USS Enterprise is now out, and Pete Robson from the Wellington Lego User Group is desperate t...
Taniwha's Den
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A first-of-its-kind indigenous economic summit aimed at bringing together business and investment le...
Feral cats - how many are there?
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Feral cats are now being added to the predator free 2050 list, and one scientist at the Bioeconomy S...
Labour plans ahead
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Labour is holding its AGM in Auckland this weekend With the economy front and centre of peoples' min...
Ukraine latest
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff has resigned following an anti corruption ra...
The most significant changes to regional councils in decades
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government says there's too much duplication and confusion and that low turn out in recent local...
Kate de Goldi - Reading for Pleasure
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate de Goldi is a novelist and the Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador. This week she's talking Irish l...
NZ photography: earliest to AI - Athol McCredie
21 Nov 2025
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Photographer, writer, and for almost 25 years, Te Papa's curator of photography Athol McCredie knows...
Protesting fishermen take to Auckland streets
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recreational fishermen from around the country are converging on Auckland this morning in protest of...
Navigating career change with Dr Galia BarHava
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the eminent close of one year and start of another, it's a time when many of us start to take s...
Calling all cheese lovers
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick McGuigan and Carlos Yescas are two cheese connoisseurs, who together set out in search of th...
The thinking behind the world's greatest thinkers
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hugh Mackay explores twenty-five profound quotes from some of the world's greatest thinkers, from Co...
Distinguished Professor Cliff Abraham: How memories are made
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How good is your memory? Are you more 'memory like a sieve'? Photographic or somewhere in the middle...
Dr Jonathan Mathias Lassiter: Mental health in marginalised communities
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lassiter works primarily with marginalised communities at a time when the US no longer feels like...
From Baldrick to Alfred the Great - Sir Tony Robinson: having fun with history
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Tony Robinson is perhaps best known for playing dogsbody Baldrick in British sitcom Blackadder. ...
The cycling economy
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not only are New Zealand's cycle trails helping get more and more people outdoors but they are also ...
Increased risk of earthquakes with climate change
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A world-first study by the University of Auckland contributes to the growing body of evidence that c...
Dame Sue Bagshaw: Puberty blockers
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government has put the brakes on the use of puberty blockers which delay the onset of puberty in...
Latest from the Middle East
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the UN Security Council voted to adopt a plan by US President Donald Trump for Gaza, Israel laun...
The future of MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend people from Tai Tokerau will gather in Kaikohe for a hui with MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. ...
Rising tensions: NZ First vs ACT
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MMP is all about compromise but it appears some serious rifts are appearing in our coalition governm...
Kereama Taepa's ambitious augmented reality art
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kereama Taepa's work 'Whakairo' has been described as one of the most ambitious augmented reality ar...
Liam Dann: AI bubble fears and "green shoots"
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investors are fearful that the AI bubble may be about to burst but what are the wider implications ...
Nick Tupara: Waeranga A Hika 160 years on
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week hundreds will commemorate the loss, arrest and deportation of their ancestors in a siege t...
Corey Baker: Dancing with the celebrities
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Baker's career has taken him from Hornby to Hollywood. The choreographer and filmmaker has wor...
Hamish McKenzie: The impact of independent journalism
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Otago-born Hamish McKenzie co-founded subscription publishing start-up Substack and is its Chief Wri...
Lars Wittig: A new way of working
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hybrid working - and the option of flexible workspaces - is a worldwide trend that is also being ado...
Pill Rolling Fingers: The experience of Early Onset Parkinson's
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recent recipient of a coveted Marsden grant to research early-onset Parkinson's was diagnosed with...
Fran Lebowitz unleashed
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Never short of an opinion, Fran Lebowitz has for decades lambasted the ridiculous.
The power of the Pause
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For people pleasers who say "yes" too often, setting boundaries can be really hard.
The Etymology Nerd: How language shapes us
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Language is evolving under the influence of internet slang, algorithms and influencer culture but wh...
The weekend in sport
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a big weekend of sport involving the Black Caps, the Silver Ferns and the All Whites, the All Bl...
Reaching for the stars: Kiwi tech in space
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zenno Astronautics is partnering with a US company called Portal Space Systems which will use Zenno'...
Changing our climate law
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
COP30 - the 30th annual United Nations climate summit comes as the government faces criticism for it...
Te Pāti Māori: Out but not over
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MP's Tākuta Ferris and Mariameno Kapa- Kingi were expelled from the party this week with Preside...
Latest on Trump and Epstein
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In emails released this week, the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote "the dog that h...
Call for police reform
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Organisations working to end sexual violence are calling for comprehensive police reform.
The tech behind NZ's Earth Science
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Volcanologist and Earth Sciences New Zealand principal scientist, Graham Leonard is back this week l...
Christian White: an almost accidental author
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He once sold sandwiches but thanks to the overnight success of his debut novel, Christian White can...
Chelsea Winter: Nourishing mind, body and soul
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New Zealand's best-selling cookbook author Chelsea Winter is back with a brand-new cookbook 'Nourish...
PM's Award for Literary Achievement for Non-fiction: Ross Calman
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week historian, te reo Maori translator and author, Ross Calman received the Prime Minister's A...
Saul David: Tunisgrad
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Allied campaign in North Africa was a turning point of World War Two. New Zealand forces includi...
Dan Te Whenua Walker: Shaping AI with Te Ao Maori
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Te Whenua Walker is the global co-chair for Indigenous at Microsoft - a group that empowers emp...
Priscilla Presley - Life after Elvis
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Priscilla Presley tells Guyon Espiner what she lost and what she found when she walked away from Elv...
41 years in the making: The Ngāti Pāoa settlement
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
About 500 Ngāti Pāoa iwi members filled the parliamentary gallery this week to witness the house p...
Eli Katoa: How was he allowed to play?
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fallout from Tongan forward Eli Katoa's concussion came hard and fast this week resulting in him...
A lifetime fighting fires
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today the Paekakariki fire brigade is turning 80. Paekakariki Deputy Chief Aaron Richardson spoke to...
Proposed ban on beggars and rough sleepers
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government has said it is considering a ban on people begging and sleeping rough in central busi...
President Trump vs the Mayor of New York
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump has lashed out at New York's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Anita Powell served ...
Dr Bryan Betty: Youth diabetes on the rise
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diabetes was once considered a condition that only affected older adults but now more and more youn...
Temuera Morrison on Lee Tamahori
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Iconic New Zealand film director Lee Tamahori passed away this week aged 75. Temuera Morrison pays t...
Tackling garden weeds with Hannah Zwartz
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our resident gardener Hannah Zwartz is back, this time with advice on how to show weeds who's boss. ...
Hooked Up: GP turned crime-writer on the dangers of reality TV
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
GP turned award-winning author Fiona Sussman's latest crime novel Hooked Up explores the manipulativ...
How one man's war on terror became a war on poverty
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Tait was only 17 when he was deployed to Iraq. Now he has written about his inner battle with...
Toby Manhire: Juggernaught
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist and podcaster Toby Manhire is in to talk to Mihi and Guyon about Juggernaut Series Two. ...
Postnatal depression: singing the blues away
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A study in the British Journal of Psychiatry supports what some mothers' groups have known for a whi...
Brendan Canty: Christy
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan's feature film Christy rolls back the issues surrounding the foster-care system for late-tee...
Dr Jeremy Lockwood: Dinosaur hunter
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After nearly thirty years as a GP, Dr Jeremy Lockwood hung up his stethoscope and started hunting di...
The Governess: Are you clever enough?
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first season of The Chase New Zealand premieres on Monday - Anne Hegerty aka The Governess is on...
Racing for men's mental health
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A team of four Kiwi adventurers are taking on NZ Godzone for Movember to raise awareness of men's me...
Ozempic for pets?
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
November is Pet Diabetes Awareness Month and highlights the importance of keeping your pet at a heal...
Capital gains tax: an international perspective
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Labour announced it will campaign for the next election with a capital gains tax as a key ...
Landmark case over water rights
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday a landmark case will begin in the High Court in Wellington over fresh water.
Potential for measles outbreak
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A public health academic says there is potential for a serious outbreak of measles in New Zealand gi...
Latest from the US
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump threw a nuclear curve ball this week saying he wants to start testing nuclear weapons s...
Ōtāhuhu Food Festival: Queen Shirl'e
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Queen Shirl'e is an Auckland-based hip hop artist and community leader known for for founding the ...
Chef Del Holland's kitchen tips + the "Best Ever" Chocolate cake
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chef Del Holland shares her tips for making a proper risotto, what to do with sourdough discard (no ...
These little boots are made for walking - the whole of NZ
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seven years old at the time she walked the entire Te Araroa trail, Emilie Bruce, along with mum Vict...
Ōtāhuhu Food Festival: Charlotte Macdonald, Garrison World
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Charlotte Macdonald talks to Mihi about the significance of Auckland's Great South Road in...
Ōtāhuhu Food Festival: Hare George and Rudy Alejandro
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Live from the Ōtāhuhu Food Festival, Mihi speaks with local foodies Hare George and Rudy Alejandro...
Ōtāhuhu Food Festival: Karen Wilson
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In early times Ōtāhuhu was a bustling trading spot with a portage for waka on the Manukau. Local i...
Elspeth Sandys: turning trauma into great stories
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A rich seam of themes can be mined from Elspeth Sandys' writing. Trauma has dogged her life. "Some p...
Ōtāhuhu Food Festival: Aroha Harris
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aroha Harris is a history lecturer at Auckland University, she shares the story of the Marmaduke Ni...
Ōtāhuhu Food Festival: Aute Neli
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mihi is reporting live from the Ōtāhuhu Food Festival throughout the morning. She speaks with Aut...