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Rugby league is back at De La Salle College for the first time in 22 years. 

Despite the absence of a rugby league team since 1999, the south Auckland school has been a melting-pot for talent, which… Audio

New Zealanders desperately hoping for a ticket home are now having a go through the latest release of MIQ rooms. 3800 rooms are up for grabs in October, November and December.

The lobby - or the… Video, Audio

A half-century on from The Kinks' 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, the boxed set arrives with heaps of archival extras. William Dart checks out just what lies beyond its… Audio

Performed by pianists Sarah Watkins, Liam Wooding, Jian Liu, Stephen De Pledge, Michael Houstoun, and Somi Kim, at Auckland Town Hall, 18 March 2021. Video, Audio

Rugby legend Sir Bryan Williams made All Blacks rugby history as the first player of Pasifika blood to play in Apartheid-era South Africa in the early 1970s. He talks to Sonia Yee about the cultural… Audio

In a first for professional sport in this country, a player has been released from his contract for refusing to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.

Promising Breakers Basketball guard, Tai Webster, will… Audio

The Silver Ferns shook off any rust they may have had after a disrupted build-up by beating the England Roses 48-42 in the first of three Tests in Christchurch on Monday night.

New Zealand sprung a… Audio

A refusal to get the Covid-19 vaccination has cost basketball player Tai Webster his spot on the New Zealand Breakers roster for the upcoming Australian National Basketball League season.

The club… Audio

Dedicated horseman Hone Smythe can usually be found guiding tourists through the Tongariro National Park on horseback. Now he's now putting his experience into a new project, working with inmates at… Audio

Christchurch’s Jenny Clarke has been ranked the number one women’s croquet player in the world for most of the last 15 years. Dr Clarke is a senior lecturer in sports science at the University of… Audio, Gallery

An update on our earlier story now regarding the NPC rugby unions who wrongly obtained exemptions for players to travel out of Auckland's level 4 lockdown.

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The case of the NPC rugby players who wrongly obtained exemptions to travel out of Auckland's level 4 lockdown is now in the hands of police, MBIE has confirmed.  Video, Audio

New Zealand Rugby top brass has ordered a please explain from several unions who let players travel out of Auckland to five other regions.

The players were given exemptions to head to their NPC teams… Audio

Hamish Ramsden was a 31 year old Hawkes Bay farmer, his wife six months pregnant, when his life changed forever. While tagging a new calf's ear, it's protective mother charged Hamish hitting him mid… Audio

Tradition meets passion as four South Westland teams compete for the region's foremost rugby prize, the Woodham Shield. The 71st year saw Fox - Franz - Haast take on Whataroa in this year's final… Video, Audio

Sunday marks the fortieth anniversary of the notorious 'flour-bomb' incident at Eden Park, when violence erupted outside the ground where the third and deciding rugby test between the All Blacks and… Video, Audio

The Auckland rugby teams have been benched, as domestic and community rugby games are set to resume around the country.

The Bunnings NPC, Farah Palmer Cup and Heartland Championship will kick off… Video, Audio

Nuwanthie Sumarakone and Raybon Kan share what they've been thinking about lately, and bagpipe player Ashley Honeywell shares his lockdown story. Audio

Brandon Jack carried the weight of legacy when he played 28 games with the Sydney Swans. He tackles the sports mad culture that nearly broke him in his new book. Audio

On this week's show there are tracks to mark the passing of Lee Perry, Charlie Watts, Don Everly and UB40 sax player and founder Brian Travers. There's also gospel courtesy of Sister Wynonna Carr plus… Audio

Tony Stamp is impressed by Halsey’s mix of pop and industrial, luxuriates in new soundscapes courtesy of Fat Freddy’s Drop, and swings his hips to two-thirds-Kiwi Berlin-based band No Romance. Audio

This week Nick features two leading contemporary players, trumpeter Terell Stafford and tenor player Mark Turner- plus tunes by Chet Baker, Charlie Parker and Jelly Roll Morton. Audio

This week Nick features two leading contemporary players, trumpeter Terell Stafford and tenor player Mark Turner- plus tunes by George Shearing and Lester Young. Audio

Sally Langley has blazed a trail into her new role - she's the second New Zealand woman to head up the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In her 'day job' Christchurch-based Dr Sally Langley is a… Audio

The Greymouth squash player Paul Coll created history this morning, becoming the first New Zealand man to win the British Open.

He defeated world champion Ali Farag of Egypt in four games to win the… Audio

There's plenty of good TV on the streamers in August, RNZ's Perlina Lau casts her eye over five shows to put on your favourites list this month. Video

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Susie to look at how multiple jurisdictions are now battling the Delta outbreak, with Sydney's lockdown tightened further to stop people moving around… Audio

For the first time in history, New Zealand's Rugby Smart programme is being delivered in Pacific languages, to encourage more Māori and Pasifika coaches to the field. 

Central region delivery lead of… Audio

To the outside world, Matt Chisholm had it all: a successful career as a TV journalist and host of the popular reality TV programmes Survivor and Celebrity Treasure Island. He had loads of friends, a… Video, Audio

Lynn Freeman talks with Becky Manawatu about her acclaimed debut novel Auē in this highlight of 2021's Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival. Audio