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The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

New Zealand's inquiry into how we handled the pandemic has already spoken to hundreds of people of all persuasions, but the work is definitely taking the hush-hush approach. Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

A post-mortem is being held on the body of a 66-year-old man found dead in a house in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie on Monday.

At this stage police are treating the death as a homicide and are… Audio

Residents in northern Hawkes Bay are mopping up once again after a night of very heavy rain caused flooding around the region.

In Nūhaka, north of Wairoa, three homes were evacuated, and three people… Audio

Fifty-six nesting pairs of the critically endangered kōtuku have landed this year at Aotearoa's only breeding spot at Whataroa on the South Island's West Coast, and chicks are now hatching every day.

Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles and the University of Auckland are disputing how much of her work talking about Covid-19 was done as a celebrity, rather than an academic.

The associate professor is… Audio

Police are continuing their search this morning for the wife of a man whose body was found at his Ellerslie home on Monday night.

The 66-year-old man's death is being treated as a homicide and the… Audio

One of the first paramedics inside Al Noor mosque after the Christchurch terror attacks has described being approached by a man carrying a dead child.

First responders have been giving evidence to… Audio