Life And Society

Violent waves continue to batter the Coromandel coast - flooding roads and damaging coastline structures over the past 24 hours. Civil Defence Coromandel's area manager Garry Towler says there… Audio

An internationally-recruited doctor formerly based in provincial New Zealand, talks about professional isolation and racism that she and others like her face. Produced by Kadambari Raghukumar. Audio

No one has ever had their benefit cut for failing to get their children to school, or into early education, or enrolled with a doctor.

That's despite the requirement for parents on the benefit to… Audio

The Child Poverty Action Group is questioning why the government isn't acting faster to remove a benefit sanction that isn't even being enforced.

Parents on the benefit have to meet several social… Audio

Nordic countries dominate global happiness rankings. However, you'd have a hard time trying to convince a lot of Finns that the World Happiness Report offers an accurate gauge of their overall state… Audio

Newstalk ZB sports host Martin Devlin was back on air this weekend, after he apologised for lashing out at one junior colleague - and sending inappropriate messages and unwanted invitations to women… Audio

Joining us on the Panel this morning are Brigitte Morten and Sam Stubbs. They'll be discussing the Budget, how safe we feel in New Zealand, what Martin Bashir did, how much we pay our nurses, and the… Audio

For the last 30 years Catherine Delahunty has undertaken the "sometimes uncomfortable mahi" of being a Treaty educator, encouraging New Zealanders to face up to the damaging elements in our country's… Audio

Looking a little worse for wear after three weeks of suspected bush bashing and possum wrestling, two missing Dunedin dogs have been found.

The border terriers Floss and Scruff had been playing down… Video, Audio

Frontline staff working for fashion giant H-and-M walked off the job this afternoon.

The workers from two Auckland stores took to the streets accusing the employer of failing to meet its commitment… Audio

Tourism businesses in the Cook Islands may be crying out for more Kiwi holidaymakers, but the sentiment isn't shared by all.

Some Rarotongans are anxious about Covid-19 creeping into the Cooks, while… Video, Audio

As our population ages, could daily care robot assist the elderly with tasks?. Residents from two Auckland retirement villages have taken part in a University of Auckland study looking at how they… Audio

After a year of zero visitors, the Cook Islands is now pondering just how many visitors it actually wants to return.

Until Covid-19 shut the borders in March, the country was seeing record numbers… Audio

Heartbroken, scared and angry.

Just some of the reactions to the findings of the chief coroner who has ruled the deaths of six people were not linked to a recent epilepsy medication change.

Judge… Audio

Migrants working remotely overseas and their New Zealand companies are calling on the government to let them back in - after 16 months of working from another country.

One man stuck in Brazil is… Audio