Life And Society

In a case of art imitating real life - or perhaps vice versa - an engineer, an electrician and a pipeline designer are part of a troupe about to tread the boards in a New Plymouth based amateur… Audio

Joining us on the Weekend Panel are Brigitte Morten and Chris Wikaira. Among other topics, they discuss how Covid-conscious the capital is, the Dawn Raids apology, the proposed new hate speech laws… Audio

North Shore native Steve Marshall lives with his wife and children in the US student town of Chapel Hill, where he works at the University of North Carolina. The campus draws people from all over the… Audio

A South Auckland youth hub is seeing an increase in its roll call, as students seize an opportunity to catch up on their studies. 

Many were among the most affected by Covid-19's interruptions to… Video, Audio

Pop star Britney Spears has appeared in a Los Angeles court, describing a harrowing picture of the court-enforced guardianship order she has been under for more than a decade.

She described being… Video, Audio

Testing sites in the Capital have been boosted as Wellingtonians rush to get tested.

The Wellington region shifted into alert level two last night after a tourist from Sydney positive when he landed… Video, Audio

Today Dave is looking at three issues facing Wellington right now. COVID in the Capital is on the top of his list, followed by the city's spatial plan and the ongoing dramas with the buses. Audio

Veteran journalist Paula Penfold has chosen to discuss her most recent documentary, Deleted, where Paula and her team at Stuff Circuit investigated the persecution of the Uyghur peoples in China. Audio

Two weeks ago Rachel Jordan was photographing a Bride and Groom on their wedding day when the helicopter they were in crashed severely injuring her, the pilot and the newly-married couple.

She's… Audio

A proposal to rein in horses roaming a small eastern Bay of Plenty town has some residents gee'd up.

Hoiho have been wandering freely in Ōpōtiki for years, but the council recently proposed stamping… Audio

ASB Showgrounds' liquidation is fast becoming very public finger-pointing exercise between two major Auckland trusts.

Checkpoint's Nick Truebridge and Nick Monro have the story. Video, Audio

There's always more to a news story than what you see, so throughout this series, Rev Frank Ritchie will be sitting down with journalists to unpack the stories that have shaped and changed them.

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For the first time, an active NFL player has come out as gay.

Las Vegas Raiders player Carl Nasib made the announcement in an Instagram post.

Sports organisations and LGBTQ-plus groups around the… Audio