Life & Society

Small businesses, with fewer than 20 employees, make up 97 percent of our enterprises and every month 850 new businesses start up in New Zealand.

But, on the flip side, 10 or so go into liquidation… Audio

Lots of children are brought up without their father playing an active role in their life - whether by choice, or by circumstance. Audio

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

It has been 50 years since the first moon landing but decades on, some people still believe it was faked.

A University of Oxford physicist,, David Robert Grimes, has crunched the numbers to figure… Audio

It's been revealed a quarter of councillors at the Christchurch City Council were against their new chief executive's salary and three voted against her appointment.

Dawn Baxendale will be paid just… Audio

Instagram is trialling a change to the social media app by hiding the number of likes on each post.

Instead of a number, you'll now see that "others" like a post.

Instagram has faced criticism for… Audio

An Oranga Tamariki social worker says there are not enough residential options to allow vulnerable women to stay with their babies and avoid having them being placed in state care.

Nearly 300 babies… Audio

A local board in south Auckland is promising to do what it can to establish a 24-hour drop-in centre for the homeless in Manurewa.

That's given some hope to community activists who have spent years… Audio

A kava bar in downtown Auckland is hoping to win hearts and minds over the drink, especially among Pakeha.

The opening of this new bar comes as the Pacific's favourite bitter elixir becomes more… Audio

More than 40 years after the infamous dawn raids on Pacific islanders, those who were there are being asked to tell their story for a new generation hungry to know.

That's one of the key messages of… Audio

Controversial ticket resale company Viagogo will no longer automatically jump to the top of Google search results.

Google has suspended the company from its paid-for search results.

Viagogo has… Video, Audio

Do you know your moon landing trivia?

Corin Dann and Kim Hill take you through some little-known facts about the first moon landing. Audio

Apollo 11's lunar module landed at 8.17am on Sunday 21 July New Zealand time.

NASA's chief scientist, Jim Green, speaks with Kim Hill about the first moon landing that happened 50 years ago. Audio

Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of when man first landed on the moon.

Since then it's shaped our pop culture and inspired new technology.

Many places are launching their own anniversary events to… Video, Audio

As the world commemorates 50 years since the first moon landing, six scientists have just emerged from a four-month isolation experiment.

The project - run by the Russian, European and US Space… Audio

The Welsh street which took the 'steepest street in the world' title off Dunedin's Baldwin Street was measured from the inside of the curved road - something which has outraged some Dunedinites, who… Video, Audio

A Taranaki woman says she's lucky to be alive after an electric blanket burst into flames on the bed she and her baby were lying in. The 24-year-old and her one-year-old son escaped unscathed, but… Video, Audio

A survivor of the Christchurch mosque attack was among a group of people from 17 countries who met with the President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, to discuss religious freedoms. Audio

Researchers into trans-women in sport are suggesting a third category would be one way of removing any questions about unfair advantage.

A new study says transgender athletes can have an advantage… Audio