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Social media has become a safe place to learn more about sex - but digital literacy is essential when you're deciding who from.

Alex Hillary says he's had great opportunities but also feels "an enormous amount of duty" having the legendary mountaineer as his grandad. Audio

"Get your coffee head to the park, head to the beach, head to a creek, head to a paddock, head to anything, and just allow them to do what is biologically wired in them" - parenting expert Maggie Dent. Audio

The beloved 79-year-old chef is upskilling cooks in Australian rest homes. Video, Audio

You can hear a song by NZ hymn writer and composer Cecily Sheehy O.P. in this week’s programme, from her collection ‘Larksong’. And we mark Transfiguration Sunday with hymns including Immortal, invisible and Christ, whose glory fills the sky. Audio

Feeling helpless to keep up with demands is usually at the heart of burnout while clinical depression is more about feeling hopelessly self-critical.

Ahead of his performance in Rotorua's Opera in the Pā, Kiwi Samoan bass-baritone Eddie Muliaumaseali'i remembers how a meeting with a Māori music legend galvanised his singing career. Video, Audio

in the upcoming book Wellington's Indian Story, Jaqueline Leckie investigates the complex history of Indian migrants in New Zealand.

Back in 2020, Jenene Crossan was the 37th New Zealander with a confirmed case of Covid-19. Audio

Halfway into his 150km swim, Brian Gray's "addled brain" sent him in the wrong direction for several hours. Audio

Pamela Anderson's impressive turn in The Last Showgirl, bears witness to lives on the margins of big entertainment, where the lure of fame can vanish at the whim of commerce. Video

Australian pianist Piers Lane returns to New Zealand to perform all of Chopin's Nocturnes. Video, Audio

Avila Allsop took up power lifting three years ago - she was 86 years old. This year she had her proudest win yet, pulling up a weight of 70kg in the sport at the New Zealand Masters Games in early February. Audio

The Gossip Girl star was found "unresponsive" in her luxury apartment in New York. The New York Medical Examiner is investigating her death - here's what we know.

Ex-pat Kiwi Robbie Ellis is forging a career in music comedy in Chicago. Video, Audio

A court case between two parents about whether their daugher should go to an elite school has reinvigorated an old debate: state or private? Audio

First person - On 15 January 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai undersea volcano erupted. It was the most powerful volcanic eruption since Krakatoa in 1883, and triggered a devastating tsunami which killed three people.

The international advocacy group, Human Rights watch, has put out a plea to Indonesia's President to stop human rights abuses in West Papua.

Landowners in Solomon Islands have filed a compensation claim against international companies of an oil spill that happened in February 2019. Audio

Police in Papua New Guinea's capital brought in excavators to tear down houses at a squatter settlement following the rape and killing of a woman.

Groups such as the Norfolk Island People for Democracy have been at loggerheads with the Australian federal government since 2015, when Canberra assumed direct control over an island that had largely managed its own affairs since 1979. Audio

Members of Destiny's Church have ignited controversy over their use of haka during protests against a children's show hosted by a drag artist, an event that was part of Pride Week celebrations.

Samoa, led by Kristiana Manu'a, a stalwart of Australian netball, claimed their first PacificAus Sports Netball Series title in Brisbane on Saturday evening.

The Northern Marianas are facing an egg shortage due to the spread of bird flu in the United States; sending businesses and the community into panic.