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New Zealand-based water bottlers are using lovely landscapes on their labels to make buyers imagine pristineness, sacred springs, mile-deep aquifers.

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Public health expert Mike Bedford says overcrowding stemming from financial pressure on parents, as well as out-dated minimum standards, are turning early childhood centres into childminding services.

The on-again / off-again meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un is on again, with experts suggesting South Korean officials may have nudged the American president back to the negotiating table.

The New Zealand First Winston Peters will officially begin his tenure as stand-in Prime Minister once Jacinda Ardern arrives at hospital to give birth.

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Columnist Lizzie Marvelly is in Auckland and former MP Peter Dunne is in the RNZ Wellington studio for The Panel.

Some are starting to notice a pattern that links key words that they type in emails or in internet search engines leading to advertisements that suddenly appear in their social media feed about those… Read more Audio

Auckland man Damien Grant is carrying on with plans for his annual commercial-scale fireworks display despite an outcry from neighbours who are worried about their pets and stock. Ros Rowe of Leg-Up… Read more Audio