Features

When countless new tenants show up in his apartment, introverted Blue Ecks fights to preserve his privacy and keep his cactus alive.​

Financial incentives are not a good motivator and can even be very damaging to the creative part of our brains, according to Yale School of Public Health researcher Steph Tan. Audio

After eight years together, Wellington vocal trio Ida Lune are releasing their first album. RNZ Music is excited to present ‘Apart’, the fourth single and video from the record, which is due out next Wednesday. 

As New Zealand heads into a truncated baseball season, a Taiwanese pitcher is leading the charge. Audio

For the past four years there has been one notable omission at the White House – the First Pet - however, that's about to change. Audio

What's happening in US is what you get when political identity drives almost every aspect of American life, political philosopher Robert Talisse says. Audio

A $50,000 annual opera award honouring Dame Malvina Major has been established and tenor Amitai Pati is 'super-grateful' to be selected as the first winner. Audio

Jon Toogood has won plenty of fans by wearing his anti-authoritarianism on his sleeve, writes the ABC's Sam Wicks.

With the biggest political mandate in a long time, The Detail examines whether Labour is holding itself back from treading a traditional left-leaning path. Audio

Property developers don’t enjoy a good reputation – but is that fair? House Talk meets the developers and asks if commercial profit is the best way for our housing to get designed and built.

There have been more reports of big cat sightings in the South Island, but Otago University zoologist Yolanda van Heezik says they are most likely large feral cats. Audio

Congratulations to distinguished mezzo-soprano and teacher of singing, Honor McKellar, celebrating her 100th birthday today in Dunedin. Audio

Learning to address smaller regrets people have week-to-week can help them deal with remorse at the end of their life, according to psychotherapist Amy Morin.  Audio

Listen - An Auckland mortgage broker describes what to look out for, what options you have and answers questions about buying a house. Audio

In a series of short, funny videos, Andrew Cotter interprets the antics of his two adorable but competitive labradors, Olive and Mabel, Video, Audio

Episode 1 of this new documentary series about the housing crisis and how to solve it, asks have market forces failed the New Zealand housing market?

The new quarterly magazine Shepherdess is part of an attempt to rejuvenate NZ's struggling magazine publishing scene. Audio

The Detail - While New Zealand has for the most part kept the pandemic at bay, Taiwan has done it without a strict lockdown and its economy has grown. Audio

Every weekday morning, two dozen Gisborne dogs wait eagerly for the rumble of Bernice David-Goodwin's bus. Audio, Gallery

Media networks were at last able to name the winner of the 'Race to the White House' yesterday but the sitting president didn't make their job any easier. Video, Audio

Keen bakers around the country are making muffins with stone-ground flour milled by a cocky from Canterbury. Video, Audio

"When I'm in America, I'm no-one, it doesn't care about me, I'm not even a number … and I love that." Audio

Get your fill of Brahms' rich and rewarding orchestral music with this new playlist from RNZ Concert.

A band of men who've created musical instruments from gates, pick heads and scrap metal give their debut performance at Taranaki's Reset 2020 Arts Festival this weekend.