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Northland schools have the lowest attendance rates after the Covid-19 level 4 and level 3 lockdown, with one only getting about quarter of their students back.

About 800,000 students were due back in… Video, Audio

If the cruise industry sinks due to Covid-19, journalist Zachary Crockett will have limited sympathy for the big companies. Crockett decided to dive into the industry and found some questionable facts… Audio

In the spirit of giving, the Two Cents' team is answering your economic questions on Kiwisaver, property prices and mortgage rates.  Audio

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about BoJo's no-shows in the UK; Air NZ's 'expert trolling,' casual racism forgiven - and how compassionate coverage of… Video, Audio

The Reserve Bank's Governor thinks the big 4 Australian banks are making too much money in NZ. Guyon Espiner investigates efforts to rein them in. Audio

Amazon Prime’s announcement of a Lord of the Rings TV series to be made here was big news in the media - as was the huge tax break it is likely to get. It’s part of a business model that means Amazon… Video, Audio

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about big paybacks for Amazon Prime - but small paydays; Three's joint On Weed and a case of sub-optimal optimisation. Audio

Auckland's two mayoral front-runners join Checkpoint host Lisa Owen in RNZ's first mayoral debate.

Current mayor Phil Goff and contender John Tamihere have expressed little love for each other so… Video, Audio

Efforts to confront two different but potentially deadly diseases hit the headlines this past week. Both were complicated stories impressively reported and explained by the media - but sometimes… Audio

There has been an 80 percent increase in fires in Brazil's Amazon jungle in the last year and president Jair Bolsonaro is being blamed. Audio

The pressure’s on for consistent cancer care around the country. Experts say that will take more than just more money for medicines but that’s become the focus of much of the coverage and comment in… Audio

Youth centered mental health workers say the wait for Government funding has turned them into competitors instead of collaborators write Sophie Dixon and Kate Aschoff.

With 75 living chicks and the final three eggs due to hatch this week, the 2019 kākāpō breeding season is set to be the longest on record. All this & the sex ratio of the first 49 chicks, in ep 16 of… Audio

Each day at Parliament MPs work through various items of business in the House, today they'll work on tax, and synthetic cannabis legislation.

Shelith Hansbro used to run a Moms and Babies Program in a U.S prison. She's been in New Zealand to speak at the Presbyterian Support Northern Speaker about the success of the special unit. Audio

Rubbish, damaged clothing and broken items are just some of the 'donations' charity stores are spending thousands of dollars a year to dump. Visual Journalist Rebekah Parsons-King and reporter… Video, Audio

A major cancer conference in Wellington attracted experts from around the world but Mediawatch's Jeremy Rose argues some media coverage was anything but world class. Audio

An economist says Papua New Guinea government allocations to the health and education sectors have reduced substantially over recent years. Audio

Trevor Mallard's warned photographers not to take unauthorised photos of the Prime Minister's baby daughter Neve now that she's back at the Beehive. Would it be best for Jacinda Ardern to keep baby… Audio

Parliament's newest MP Dan Bidois discusses the win and the issues his new electorate faces. Audio

Facing puberty, fitting in at school. It can be hard work for kids. But it's harder still for children who feel they're in the wrong body. Katy Gosset looks at raising a transgender child. 

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Concerns are being raised about the lack of transparency over how land lease payments to the Samoan village of Sasina were divided up. Audio

A group of Pacific women in New Zealand affected by breast cancer want people to know that early detection is a key to long-term survival. Audio, Gallery

The violent far-right protest at Charlottesville, Virginia last month demonstrated that the 'geeky' online subculture of the political right has fallen away and what remains is militant, isolated and… Audio

To end RNZ's Is This The Brighter Future? series, senior journalists Jane Patterson and Patrick O'Meara crunch the numbers on the government's economic stewardship.

Government initiatives to improve better health among a large Pacific community in South Auckland have failed, despite community efforts to fight high obesity and diabetes rates. Audio

Papua New Guinea's Treasurer says the country's economy has "fallen off a cliff" under the present government, led by Peter O'Neill. But Patrick Pruaitch's damning revelation on the state of PNG's… Audio