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What drives New Zealand's faultlines and earthquakes, and what does it mean for us?  Audio

Go behind the scenes at the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre, where a team of analysts are on alert 24/7 for earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis and landslides. What happens when a natural… Audio

Award-winning writer, musician, and broadcaster Nick Bollinger delves into diverse corners of Aotearoa's musical past and present to investigate what it is that differentiates New Zealand pop music… Video, Audio

Promises, promises: it’s easy to forget which party has pledged what. Welcome to RNZ’s go-to guide for party policy ahead of the 14 October election day. We’ll keep updating this guide as policies are…

This brilliantly told tale of toxic trustafarians and the corporate schemers of media conglomerate Waystar RoyCo has come to an end after four seasons. Succession super-fan Graham Smith takes a look… Video

Budget day is all about the Minister of Finance’s big reveal. But spare a thought for other party leaders who must prepare speeches opposing something they haven't read yet. Audio

Commuter chaos in the capital, trains grinding to a halt in Auckland - what's going on at KiwiRail? Audio

A fault with KiwiRail's overhead power lines has caused commuter chaos across Auckland this morning, with train services cancelled across the city. The fault at Grafton resulted in power being… Audio

Whakatāne hospital's acute mental health facility may have to close unless urgent work is carried out to keep patients safe in an earthquake.

Board minutes from January reveal that GNS Science has… Audio

Almost a year on from Tonga's devastating undersea volcanic eruption, volcanologist Shane Cronin asseses the impact and implications for monitoring other Pacific fault lines. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha… Audio

South Island ski fields are worried patchy power supplies could put lives at risk and knee cap plans for a bumper school holiday run.

Coronet peak and thousands of nearby residents in Dalefield and… Video, Audio

The Nevis Fault is a sleeping giant fault, one that awakens only every 10,000 years or so. This week, a team of geologists use paleoseismic trenching to answer questions about this fault and to figure… Video, Audio

We climb into a trench dug across a fault line to learn about the science of paleoseismology - finding past earthquakes in sediment layers. Audio

The world is not just seeing high oil prices, it is at the beginning of a fully-fledged energy crisis, says Helen Thompson, a professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University. Audio

Very few people have seen as much news unfold in front of them as journalist, correspondent and editor Jon Sopel. Jon joined the BBC in 1983. He's been the chief political correspondent for BBC News… Audio

Why is that Spider Dancing? The Amazing Arachnids of Aotearoa which is aimed at 9 to 12-year-old readers. Audio, Gallery

The first tranche of the government’s $55m journalism Fund has been allocated - against a backdrop of criticism it could skew reporting of political issues. Māori journalism projects and a new… Audio

Tony Stamp checks out a soulful concoction from former Electric Wire Hustle vocalist Mara TK, an upbeat pondering of mortality by The Chills, and the debut of deadpan post-punk Brits Dry Cleaning. Audio

New Zealand freelance journalist Simon Hampton is on his way to Washington this week to cover the inauguration. He takes a moment to speak with Emile from a country sitting on a very complex set of… Audio

It's no surprise to most of us that New Zealand is perched on top of a collection of fault lines. But what might be a surprise is how little we understand some of them, and that we're still finding… Audio

Tony Green from Masjid An-Nur Mosque says society has a lot of work to do to combat racism. Audio

As Auckland struggles through a "tricky" extended lockdown, who are the political winners & losers? We debate covid fatigue, who's won from the wage subsidies (hint: not women) and two up-for-grabs… Audio

The 52nd Parliament has come to an end and in typical parliamentary fashion the MPs finished it off with a debate. Audio

“It’s a mixture of relief and I guess exhaustion, and disappointment and also hope.” Clare Curran is leaving politics, she talks bear pits, the media, Dunedin, mental health and tartan noir.  Audio

New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters has also acknowledged today the heavy price of trying to lead the National Party today.

"One's sympathy goes out to Todd Muller and his family.

Todd is a good… Audio

When conscience intervenes in the running of Parliament. How conscience issues alter the rules and process of law making. Audio

In 1992, the economist Francis Fukuyama declared we were at the end of history with the worldwide transition to liberal democracies. Today, that picture looks a lot different as developing countries… Audio

Over the past twenty years there has been a bumper crop of memorable and beautiful local albums that have found notable success. We are proud to offer you our top 21 albums of the twenty-first century… Audio