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Seaweed salad and no 'woke sushi': How Japan does school lunches
While Kiwis debate the government's free school lunches, Japan's embassy has demonstrated what goes into the country's 136-year-old lunch programme.
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The quail kid - cracking the egg market aged 12
13 Jun 2025Hamish Sturgeon has been rearing quails for their eggs since the age of 11. They're healthy, delicious and it's a fun side-hustle, he says.
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'Flip a coin': SBW, Gallen eye fitting end to decade-long war of words
13 Jun 2025The former All Black has seen his character attacked and he's ready to fight back against the Aussie league legend.
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Smoking, drinking and Jazzercise: 100 years of NZ 'wellbeing'
13 Jun 2025RNZ's 100 Years podcast looks at how the country has approached health over the past century.
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Sole survivor of India plane crash jumped out of emergency exit
Ramesh Viswashkumar was sitting near an emergency exit of the London-bound flight.
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'Sufficiently troubling': Private investigator reviews ex-cop's rape conviction
13 Jun 2025Tim McKinnel says he was initially reluctant to look into the case, but then decided it warranted closer examination.
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Gumboots and cowgirl style: The fashion of Fieldays
13 Jun 2025With gloomy weather shadowing the event, attendees came prepared for downpours, mud and wind.
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The Pitt is the hardest day at work I never had
13 Jun 2025As each episode of The Pitt finishes, I wipe the sweat (and sometimes tears) from my face, take a sip of water and get ready for another hour.
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How Brian Wilson's music changed the world (and 10 of his best songs)
The former Beach Boy's distinctive sound - sunshine tinged with melancholy - still rings true, writes longtime fan Nik Dirga.
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Book dealer sickened by plan to destroy half a million books
Hard To Find Books owner Warwick Jordan says he couldn't sleep last night, thinking about the offers he's made to take the National Library's books.
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11 sunscreens sold in NZ don't meet SPF claims - report
Most of 20 popular sunscreens tested didn't meet the mark, including one that was wildly off.
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Teenager starves to death alone in emergency accommodation
12 Jun 2025The 17-year-old's parents say multiple agencies failed their child.
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Row erupts over five 'Year 14s' in school's controversial first XV
Critics say the college has stacked its team with older players, with one parent saying it's making a "mockery" of a premier competition.
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The Pentagon, NZ and the new nuclear overlap
12 Jun 2025The US is modernising its nuclear weapons command and control system. New Zealand nay feel the effects.
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Bodies of four weasels found inside Zealandia eco-sanctuary
12 Jun 2025Unwanted visitors have made their way into Wellington sanctuary.
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Brian Wilson, music icon and creative force behind The Beach Boys, has died at 82
12 Jun 2025The Beach Boys musician, songwriter and producer who wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds, has died aged 82.
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'Went too far': Musk on his posts about Trump
Elon Musk took to the social media platform X, after exchanging insults with US President Donald Trump.
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Report finds stark outcomes for Māori in state care system
12 Jun 2025The Independent Children's Monitor has found Māori children overrepresented in Oranga Tamariki's systems, with outcomes as they grow up painting a "paint a stark picture".
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'Moved around like cattle': Rough sleepers in makeshift CBD camp trespassed
12 Jun 2025The council says the operation was necessary due to antisocial behaviour.
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Police have grave concerns for missing 79-year-old woman
12 Jun 2025Elisabeth Nicholls disappeared after walking out of a retirement village in Riccarton.
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'It's hard to know what's real and what's not': KiwiSaver hardship concerns
12 Jun 2025A growing number of New Zealanders are making hardship withdrawals from their retirement savings.
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'Extremely unhelpful': US criticises allies as NZ bans two Israeli ministers
11 Jun 2025Winston Peters says the pair 'actively undermine peace and security', but the US has called the sanctions "extremely unhelpful".
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Netflix 'doesn't need us' or our 'silly' levy
The idea of forcing the global streaming giant to fund local shows won't work, TV production pioneer Dame Julie Christie tells 30 with Guyon Espiner.
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'Devastated' mum believes son had allergic reaction before sudden death
11 Jun 2025Paula Brown is waiting for answers about what happened to her son at a respite facility before he died of cardiac arrest.
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Australian tradie who won $22 million in NZ Lotto dies from drug use
11 Jun 2025Josh Winslet's winnings soon attracted the wrong crowd and he slid into drug crime.
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76 days, 1100 worms, 25% less body weight: the first Kiwi to win Alone
Meet the Bay of Plenty possum-trapper who's just become the first Kiwi to take out a season of the hit survival show.
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The company doing things with food nobody else wants
10 Jun 2025Rescued Kitchen turns surplus bread into crumbs and tonnes of tomatoes into sauces.
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'We are living a nightmare': Parent's plea after teen's death
10 Jun 2025Just weeks before his 16th birthday, Kaea Karauria was fatally stabbed at a birthday party. Video
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