Life And Society

What Now is New Zealand's most successful and longest running children's television show and this year celebrated 40 years. Rex Simpson who founded it says it was a platform to grow new talent, and a… Audio

South Island businesses are standing behind the lockdown, saying it's a gutting but necessary decision.

Tess Brunton reports. Audio

Rain in the capital helped encourage many Wellingtonians to embrace lockdown today.

It has also hit pause on the capital's major food event - Wellington On A Plate.

Jake McKee has more.

  Video, Audio

A man in his 50s has tested positive for Covid-19. He is from the Auckland suburb of Devonport, and was tested at his GP.

Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge joins Lisa Owen now from downtown… Video, Audio

In the final episode of He Kākano Ahau, we explore intergenerational visions, whakapapa, and future aspirations with a māmā-daughter duo, and a Māori futurist. Audio

It's the final week of August's 'Kindness store on TradeME', they've been helping KidsCan with items for children in need. There's literally hundreds of things up for you to buy to donate to children… Audio

A teenager has completed a mammoth feat - rowing 1000km around the top of New Zealand.

Nineteen-year-old Ben Mason's spent three weeks at sea raising more than $20,000 for the Breast Cancer… Video, Audio

Sailing through the 15 islands of the Cooks, across two million square kilometres of ocean, with only the stars, wind and ocean currents to guide them.

That's the journey a crew of young Cook… Audio

A city-centre gym prolifically training rising stars in the kickboxing scene, prides itself on training as one large mixed family. Kadambari Raghukumar spoke to the Iran-born director, Vahid Unesi.  Audio

Sales of chewing gum fell by 14% worldwide in 2020. Will Coldwell is a London-based journalist who recently composed a piece in The Economist about the demise of chewing gum, which has been used in… Audio

Among other topics this morning, our Weekend panellists will be looking at the tough Covid-19 decisions, the disappearance of cash in society, the Winston Churchill painting from Parliament and the… Audio

For the past nine years Helen Bint has lived off-the-grid in a truly remote, spectacular location - a historic stone cottage at the foot of a 200-metre high rocky outcrop on the Chatham Islands. Audio, Gallery

The Christchurch Mayor is nervous about how the city will pay for an upsized multi-use arena, but believes it is what residents want.

Christchurch City council yesterday backtracked on a decision to… Audio

Tim Nelson, former Blind Date participant, shares some of his memories of the show.  Audio

Op shops have been busier since the pandemic began with more New Zealanders out second-hand shopping. Jeremy Neeve who runs the Wellington City Mission stores talks to Jesse about what they're… Audio

The government's plan to gradually reopen our border has been given a tentative thumbs up by rest home operators. The New Zealand Aged Care Association says any prospect of getting more nurses and… Audio

An Auckland man has donated 10,000 pairs of shoes to children in the Pacific. Frazer Mataitonga has been continuing the charitable work that his mother used to carry out in Tonga. Together with his… Audio