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New Zealanders like to think we have a “Number 8 Wire Mentality” - a rough and ready enthusiasm for fixing and building stuff with limited resources.  Video, Audio

Marine mammals were a source of food and clothing for Māori and Moriori, and valuable oil for Europeans. Hunting them brought cultures together, made fortunes and cost lives but today it's saving them… Video, Audio

Moriori are the original people of Rēkohu (aka Chatham Island or Wharekauri) & they have a tragic and inspiring story. Unfortunately, that story's often been twisted into, well, utter rubbish. Video, Audio

New Zealanders have battled Covid-19 for more than two years, but if you think it's the first time disease has knocked us around, well, this one's for you. Epidemics have long been part of our story. 

The 1950s saw an explosion of youth culture. “Bodgies and widgies' ' tearing round on motorbikes & hanging out in milk bars scandalised many Kiwi adults. Was “the teenager” invented in the 1950s? And… Video, Audio

The first 500 years of Māori settlement in Aotearoa saw significant, dynamic changes to how people lived; changes that challenge the idea of Māori culture as something carved in stone. Video, Audio

No-one knows for sure who first introduced rabbits to New Zealand, because no-one wanted to take the blame for what became one of New Zealand's biggest environmental and economic disasters. We start… Video, Audio

Gas bills will rise by an average of 11 percent next month for Contact Energy customers, and 10 percent for Genesis customers - if not on fixed term contracts. Electricity prices are also on the rise… Audio

An investigation is set to examine any potential conflict of interest in contracts between government agencies and the consultancy company owned by Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta's husband.

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The Auckland Business Chamber wants the Government to allow household contacts of Covid-19 cases to come back to work.

That's despite modelling which suggests Aotearoa is at the beginning of a second… Audio

NASA has lost contact with the satellite, the CAPSTONE, which was launched aboard a Rocket Lab rocket from Mahia Peninsula on the 28 June.

Rocket Lab lifted Capstone into a high Earth orbit, before… Audio

Community groups in Cromwell want Contact Energy's Clyde Dam consent conditions to be strengthened.

There's now a once-in-a-five-year chance to change the consent and, with part of Lake Dunstan now… Audio

Dr Helen Murray explores the relationship between repetitive head injuries, contact sport and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) - a progressive brain disease that causes dementia. Audio

Ilan Wittenberg wants visitors to his new exhibition of photographic portraits not to see subjects in front of a camera, but real people. To do this, he's asked those who sit for him to stare straight… Audio, Gallery

People infected with Covid-19 are about to become their own contact tracers, with a new online system about to go live.

The country is now in phase two of its Omicron response and with daily case… Audio

Tonga seasonal workers in New Zealand still desperate to hear from loved ones, two weeks since the eruption and tsunami. Audio

With Omicron knocking on New Zealand's doorstep, there's concern about how our contact tracing system will cope when it begins spreading in the community.

The system came under severe strain when… Audio

The country's Covid-19 contact tracing system is being upgraded to deal with the highly infectious Omicron variant.

It struggled in the Delta outbreak and will be critical for containing the much… Audio

The contact-tracing system missed most of its targets over the first two months of the Delta outbreak.

That's according to an interim report released by the Ministry of Health.

Ideally, at least 80… Audio

What is the future for contact tracing as the delta outbreak continues its spread around the country? As of Monday there were nearly six and a half thousand active contacts being managed in… Audio

A public health expert reviewing the government's contact tracing strategy says it's bizarre that system capacity hasn't been increased, given its cost-effectiveness compared to spiralling cases and… Audio

The health sector is preparing to change the way it deals with positive cases as numbers continue to grow, such as caring for more people in their homes.

The director-general of health Dr Ashley… Audio

Twenty-nine staff at Middlemore Hospital have been stood down and told to isolate for 14 days after a patient complaining of abdominal pain tested positive for Covid-19. Four wards at the hospital… Audio

The job of a contact tracer is difficult, delicate, and a race against the clock. 

The Nurses Organisation says nurses who live with close contacts are being asked to turn up for work at Auckland's DHBs. The union says they're deeply concerned by a Ministry of Health exemption… Audio