The Detail

There have been 130 complaints of businesses breaking the law, and supermarket customers now pay for their bin liners - how is the country coping with the plastic bag ban three weeks in?  Read more Audio

Fifty years after the moon landings - during which the space race slowed to a crawl - exploration is speeding up again.  Read more Audio

New Zealand wants people coming in to the country to do the work - but we don't want them to stay.  Read more Audio

Māori say their anger over uplifted children is greater than the foreshore and seabed issue, and Oranga Tamariki can not continue this way. Read more Audio

House prices are dropping, but they're still a long way off from being affordable.  Read more Audio

Have you worked out how you'll be watching the Rugby World Cup this year? Because the way sport is being delivered to our screens is changing.  Read more Audio

Sean Marks is the other New Zealander making big waves in the world's biggest basketball competition, and he's more influential than Steven Adams.  Read more Audio

There's a new plan to tax gas guzzlers and give discounts on cleaner cars - but changing over to electric vehicles just isn't that easy.  Read more Audio

Celebrations of Matariki seem pale in comparison to those for Chinese New Year and Diwali - why? And do we need to have a look at rearranging our public holiday schedule to mark it?  Read more Audio

MLMs - multi-level marketing schemes - are not illegal, but they often target vulnerable women and very few people make money out of them. Read more Audio

It's a good time to be in the tick certification business in New Zealand - and now there's a new one: the Gender Tick.  Read more Audio

Low personal polling for National Party leader Simon Bridges doesn't necessarily mean that replacing him before the election is a sure thing.  Read more Audio

A watershed Waitangi Tribunal report backs claims the system is racist, finding the Crown has breached the Treaty in failing to give Māori control over a primary health system that works for them.  Read more Audio

There's a piece of New Zealand's most important heritage locked behind hoardings on Auckland's Queen St. The St James Theatre is dying a death of neglect - but those who love the old lady haven't… Read more Audio

It's now two years after the America's Cup was lifted in Bermuda - and two years before the next event is run in Auckland. How ready is the city? Read more Audio

How will New Zealand stop white supremacy ideology being broadcast from the dock when the man accused of the Christchurch mosque shooting is put on trial?  Read more Audio

Tensions are escalating between Iran and the United States, and there doesn't appear to be an off-ramp.  Read more Audio

Should desperately ill New Zealanders have the right to choose their own death? And if so, under what circumstances? David Seymour's End of Life Choice bill is back for a second reading today.  Read more Audio

Rihanna talked about it and Instagram turned blue - Sudan is the massacre where social media drove awareness more than mainstream media.  Read more Audio

The days when all your news was free on the internet are changing. The NZ Herald is now charging for premium content - and there are plenty of people willing to pay for good journalism. Read more Audio

It's more than 100 days since the last White House press briefing. Is this the end of a 90-year-old institution?  Read more Audio

The government has stepped in to clean up the vast West Coast rubbish spill, after local authorities ran out of cash to finish the job. But what's being done to stop it happening elsewhere?  Read more Audio

Hong Kong demonstrators have won their fight to stop a new extradition bill that would have allowed citizens to be tried for their crimes in China. But their mainland neighbour looms large and the… Read more Audio

Auckland Council has joined five other New Zealand local bodies to declare a climate change emergency - but is this just lip service being paid in election year?  Read more Audio

Is the government swapping one bad habit for another by encouraging smokers to move to vaping, as a way of curing their addiction?  Read more Audio

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is sweeping through US politics like a hurricane. Her sharp use of social media means you've probably heard of her - so who is she?  Read more Audio

Why does New Zealand use so much of the world's 1080, the controversial poison that environmentalists say we need to use more of, or lose our threatened bird species.  Read more Audio

Newsroom's Melanie Reid has been reporting on children and babies being taken by the state for two years. Now, footage taken by the families involved reveals the brutal reality of what really… Read more Audio

5G is coming - what exactly is that, and will it be the revolution telcos would have you believe?  Read more Audio

Kim Dotcom's seven year saga to avoid extradition to the United States for piracy crimes is finally coming to an end. Read more Audio