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Despite most universities goals to increase the proportion of Māori and Pacific students and staff, their numbers remain stubbornly low in research and STEM. Audio

In his maiden speech the newly sworn-in MP for Tauranga warns of a malaise in the country, and urges the nation to 'get busy winning'.

New Zealand has likely passed the peak of the most recent Covid-19 wave, thanks to strong hybrid immunity in the community, according to several experts.

Liz Truss is leading polls of party members to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's Prime Minister - but who is she?

Fiji's post-Covid-19 recovery will be a "slow process" due to the debt burden faced by the country, according to University of the South Pacific academic Dr Neelesh Gounder. Audio

The eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai in January triggered a tsunami of unprecedented proportions, impacting the entire Pacific. How did this volcanic eruption lead to a tsunami detected across…

The body mass index has well-known shortcomings, so why is it still being used?

Year 10 students have been trialling new high-stakes literacy and numeracy tests in schools this week.

We've got vast amounts of knowledge and information available to us at our fingertips - so why are literacy rates steadily declining?

Despite early faith in herd immunity ending the Covid-19 pandemic, it was probably always a pipe dream, Hassan Vally writes.

The queue to get into a popular Palmerston North secondhand book sale formed before dawn.

Big tech and social media bosses pledged to eradicate online extremism in Christchurch Call three years ago in Paris - and today they claim atrocities which echo the 15 March massacre don't go viral…

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded to Anthony Albanese, who will return Labor from the political wilderness to government in Australia, seizing power from the Coalition.

A total of $NZ196 million has been set aside for Pacific services in New Zealand in this year's Budget.

Perhaps it is human psychology rather than nature that has sustained the idea of Nessie since the 1930s, writes Charles Paxton.