Life And Society

Major vegetable growers and contractors near Mt Ruapehu are faced with a dilemma - use a rickety old bridge or have their business kneecapped.

The district council has imposed a tight weight limit on… Audio

Cook Island businesses holding out for much needed tourists have now got a repreive with a travel bubble with New Zealand just days away.

It will start on the 17 May, with Air New Zealand offering… Audio

"If I had the opportunity to do that again, I'd be pleased to accept." The Chief Human Rights Commissioner has stood by his decision to meet with a Waikato chapter of the Mongrel Mob, despite heavy… Video, Audio

A New Zealand citizen who has recently returned from India has recounted the massive cost and stress of getting home.

Pushpindar Singh left New Zealand for India on March 29 to be with his dying… Audio

New Zealand finally has a start date for the long-awaited Cook Islands bubble - May 17 - but conditions apply.

Both the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Cook Islands counterpart Mark Brown… Video, Audio

There's been a proliferation of crowdfunding iniatives particularly seeking donations to pay medical treatment ,and new research provides information about how the key to success can involve how… Audio

Motorists down south are in for a surprise on Monday morning, a tractor steadily making its way up State Highway 1 somewhere between Oamaru and Christchurch.

Members of the Thornbury Vintage Tractor… Audio

Travel restrictions between India and New Zealand have been loosened but thousands of Indian families are still separated. Katy Gosset hears how the situation has rocked one Christchurch household. Audio

Thirty years ago Catherine King and Wayne Adams started a project to build their dream home - a floating complex off the coast of western Canada which they have dubbed Freedom Cove. What they created… Audio

On the Panel this morning are Josie Pagaini and Louis Houlbrooke. They look at guns, how much exercise we're getting, the success of the vaccine rollout in New Zealand, housing policy changes, and the… Audio

America's Matriarch of Money Suze Orman says couples shouldn't share bank accounts, and that joint accounts can lead to power imbalances. Katrina Shanks, the CEO of Financial Advice New Zealand, says… Audio

Jane Mander is best known for her 1920 novel The Story of a New Zealand River, widely thought to be the underlying narrative for Jane Campion's film The Piano. The daughter of an MP, sawmiller and… Audio

Kiwi Mark Chapman is a teacher at the International School of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. He is in his ninth lockdown and separated from his wife and children who are in Aotearoa. The weather is… Audio