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Not yet read the contenders for Aotearoa’s big-deal book awards? Here’s a cheat sheet to help you sound like you have.

After decades as one of the country’s best-known journalists, Cameron Bennett took on a unique new challenge: to educate the nation on the New Zealand Wars and help tell Māori stories. Audio

New Zealand's most deprived children are suffering the most from preventable diseases.

That's according to the third report on the State of Child Health by research charity Cure Kids, released today.

Today on The Panel, Wallace and panellists Ella Henry and Peter Fa'afiu discuss the call from several Gorse District Councillors for Mayor Ben Bell to resign and a report's findings on hospitalisation… Audio

For the first time ever, research has shown that seismic signals can be used to track pyroclastic flows from volcanic eruptions. Mathematics and Statistics Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Dr… Audio

Weather-related events have taken a massive toll on any number of people around the country this year. Many businesses have faced massive - and sometimes repeat - clean-ups, disruption to operations… Audio

Five months into 2023 and the year has posed more than its fair share of environmentally-fuelled mental health challenges - with the fallout from January's floods in Auckland, Cyclone Gabrielle and… Audio

More than 300 households whose homes were wrecked in the cyclone and Auckland floods, are still waiting to be housed - or are in limbo.

The hold up is partly because the Temporary Accomodation… Audio

A Mount Roskill liquor store manager at his wits end after multiple robberies in the last few months.

He had applied for assistance from the Government's crime prevention fund but didn't qualify… Video, Audio

American polymath Derek Sivers gets a "deep sense of happiness and identity" from his New Zealand passport. Audio

$10 million has been allocated from this year's Budget for the clearing of rivers in Tairawhiti and Hawke's Bay. The government is hoping the money will help remove up to 70,000 tonnes of woody debris… Audio

Some in the media learned the lessons of Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods, just as the emergency management authorities have done - and they made a concerted effort to… Audio

US-based NewsGuard is rating New Zealand's significant news sites for reliability - and even preparing ‘nutrition labels’ to warn users to treat them with caution. NewsGuard is also using human… Video, Audio

This Mother’s Day, Westport writer, mother and aunty Becky Manawatu is hoping to accept that she hasn't been able to do half of what she has wanted to do for her kids, or herself, or anyone else, for…

Known for his contemporary takes on Shakespeare, Aotearoa theatre director and scholar David Lawrence believes the bard's intentions have been long compromised by being organised into the genres of… Audio

Aotearoa's fungi are fascinating, freaky and fantastical according to Otautahi based forager and food writer Liv Sisson. We have 22,000 species, including one that hunts bugs, a lichen named after… Audio

It's a town that knows about the impacts of climate change all to well.. and today the Prime Minister chipped in money for flood protection.

Westport has had several flooding events in recent years… Audio

A damning inquiry into slash on the East Coast says the forestry industry has lost its social licence in Tai Rāwhiti - and should help foot the bill for the clean-up.

The report says the next five to… Audio

Elizabeth Kerr talks with Bryan Crump about her online music review blog, Five Lines. Audio

Food prices are climbing higher and New Zealanders are desperate for solutions to keep their grocery bills low.

Some shoppers told RNZ removing GST from fruit and vegetables may be a way to help.

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The Transport Minister has promised the new link to the Coromandel Peninsula will be put in place fast.

But for some residents and businesses, "early next year" is still a long way away.

State… Video, Audio

A father, who stopped his son going on a fatal school caving expedition because of safety concerns says the trip should never have gone ahead and someone needs to be held responsible.

Whangārei Boys… Video, Audio

Māori academic Linda Tuhiwai Smith tells Kathryn Ryan she often cried while writing her new series of therapeutic storybooks for kids. Audio

A man who was at the scene of the Abbey Caves tragedy says one of the adults who was with the students, saved lives.

Caleb Salisbury, an arborist based in Whangarei, says he called 111 after some of… Audio

If you find yourself in situation where someone greats you like an old friend but you cant quite place their face. you might have something called prosopagnosia - or - face blindess. It's a rare… Audio

The Covid-19 pandemic made self-testing with RATs a household convenience - could we do the same with testing for sexually transmitted infections? Audio