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Auckland health authorities are urgently recruiting more contact tracers as the system hits capacity just five days into the outbreak.

The tracers are vital to the Covid-19 response because they get… Audio

Te Paati Māori is worried about data privacy and low trust among communities, following the Government decision to mandate record keeping of the public's movements. 

Cabinet has decided to make it… Audio

The power of picture books - to transport, to delight and often as a way to help adults discuss serious ideas with children. All these aspects are being covered in a new international online course… Audio

Collectively the MPs can make Parliament’s rules, but just a few of them can short circuit that and agree together what will happen. Audio

Tune in this week for a selection of hymns of reassurance, comfort and hope. Audio

Tony Stamp has a lockdown listen to UK music legend Joan Armatrading’s twentieth album, the third EP in a series by Zimbabwe-born, Australia-raised, LA-based hip hop musician Tkay Maidza, and the… Audio

Lorde on her new album Solar Power, fame, and growing up. Video, Audio

Jim Schuster works with Heritage New Zealand as a marae restorer around New Zealand and the world, and in the latter category there's one particularly close to his heart. Meeting house Hinemihi has… Audio, Gallery

Harvesting of leafy vegetables has continued in unpleasant conditions around Pukekohe and on a Nelson orchard growth is about a week ahead of last year. Audio

Country Life this week follows a dairy farmer and his team in the wee early hours as they help the herd through the calving season and what started out as a lifestyle hobby for a family in Cheviot has… Audio

There's been a spike in demand for community service providers across the motu during lockdown.

Food parcels, take away lunches and advise to those in need is being given - and providers are… Audio

North Shore Hospital is operating under strict Alert Level 4 rules, turning away new patients from its emergency department with many staff isolating after potentially being exposed to a Covid-19… Video, Audio

Gardening guru Lynda Hallinan joins Jesse to talk about what can be done in the garden as spring draws near and how to incorporate any child labour you may suddenly at your disposal to help out! Audio

Military personnel have now left New Zealand to help with evacuation efforts from Afghanistan.

Nobody will follow their progress with greater feeling than Tina Grant, whose husband, Corporal Doug… Audio

Dairies are frustrated new Covid-19 provisions for supermarket workers, like vaccine priority and Police support, aren't being extended to smaller grocers.

Sunny Kaushal, chair of the Dairy and… Audio

The Auckland City Missioner says requests for help from its foodbank doubled on the first day of the Level 4 lockdown yesterday, and it's just as busy today.

It's helping rough sleepers with food… Audio

Panellists Penny Ashton and David Farrar discuss the developing Covid situation, what New Zealanders can do to help Afghanistan, and whether Disneyland is an object of art or monstrosity… Audio

As any parent of a new baby knows, sleep can be elusive and the abundance of advice about it can be overwhelming. Sleep specialist Dr Bronwyn Sweeney shares some insight. Audio

The tech industry in New Zealand is approaching breaking point, with closed borders seriously exasperating an already stretched massive specialist skills shortage. Is New Zealand’s future economic… Audio

Would Hiroshima have been bombed if the Japanese language contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Did a mistaken translation of the Italian "canali" -- or channels -- shape the space race to Mars… Audio

There were long queues at testing centres yesterday, particularly in Auckland, where more than 3000 people went through the stations wanting a Covid-19 swab.

Health officials struggled to keep up… Audio

Deadlines can actually be lifelines for perfectionists and procrastinators who never think good is good enough. Christopher Cox is a former chief editor of Harper’s Magazine and former executive… 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

We'll stay in Australia where there has been a further 452 new Covid-19 cases reported in New South Wales. And Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded that the Australian government will not be… Audio

In Afghanistan the Taliban is taking control again, even as US military planes leave the tarmac in Kabul. Now the war is being compared to Vietnam in its futility.  Audio

Last night we talked to Taqi Amini who is a Hazaran Afghani in Auckland who is trying to help his wife's parents get out of Kabul. Tonight we're talking to Zahra Zahra Ashna who is in Kabul. She has… Audio

Scientists are working hard to find the source of this latest case of Covid-19, looking for potential links through the genome sequencing.

Its lead for genomics is Joep de Ligt. He talks to Lisa… Video, Audio

New Zealanders with families in Afghanistan are desperate to be reunited with their loved ones.

New Zealand is sending one of its Hercules aircraft and 40 Defence Force troops to help with a wider… Audio