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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.

Young Maori chefs Joshua Hunter and Mitchell Tierney have turned the capital's well known inner city eatery, Havana Bar and cafe into a wharekai as part of Wellington on a Plate. Josh, who is Ngati… Audio

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

Petone is a seaside town in Lower Hutt known for harbour views and niche shopping. Its proper name 'Pito-One' relates to a special area on the beach. Audio

Lady on the Rock is a bronze statue depicting one of the first women to arrive in the Bay of Plenty. Justine Murray visits WhakatÄne to learn about the town's history - and scores some delicious… Audio

Hot pizza will soon be drone-delivered to doorsteps in the Waikato town of Huntly. In a New Zealand-first, the American company SkyDrop is launching a “store-to-door” drone delivery trial from… Audio

RNZ Waikato senior reporter Andrew McRae joins Susie to detail the ongoing work in Coromandel and around Raglan to patch up roads badly damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle. No decision has been made yet… Audio

Is the push-back against karakia out of order? A look at why some councils don't want it, and why they should use it.  Audio

Jen Cloher (Ngapuhi & Ngati Kahu) is a songwriter and performer who lives on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm (Melbourne)

Their latest album was released on Jen's own label Milk! "Ko au te awa, ko te… Audio

Former Carterton Mayor and MP for Wairarapa Georgina Beyer died yesterday after a longer illness. Beyer (Te Ati Awa, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Raukawa, and Ngati Porou) was the world's first openly… Audio

Acclaimed Kiwi opera singer Phillip Rhodes (Ngati Awa and Ngati Kahungunu) talks to Nine to Noon about his career, being appointed the first Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Laureate and what lies ahead… Audio

Residents in Napier's Te Awa Estate near Marine Parade have been told to evacuate immediately due to rising flood waters. Civil Defence says this covers Kenny Drive north to Hurunui Drive. Civil… Audio

Emergency Management Minister Kieran McAnulty says this morning's evacuation in the Te Awa Estate in Napier shows that the worst is still not over, despite Cyclone Gabrielle moving away from the… Audio

Residents in Napier's Te Awa Estate near Marine Parade are being told to evacuate immediately due to rising flood waters.

Civil Defence says this covers Kenny Drive north to Hurunui Drive. 

RNZ… Audio

Professor Huhana Smith, who heads Whiti o Rehua School of Art at Massey University, has spent the last 20 years focussed on the restoration of her ancestral coastal whenua and awa at Kuku Beach, near… Audio

The Waitangi Tribunal has found the Crown committed several treaty breaches on the Kāpiti Coast - including the origins of the town of Waikanae.

The 992 page report released just now is the latest… Audio

The first 500 years of Māori settlement in Aotearoa saw significant, dynamic changes to how people lived; changes that challenge the idea of Māori culture as something carved in stone. Video, Audio

What makes a pepeha? As The Detail finds out, it's a deeply personal part of tikanga Māori. Audio

A work called "Red" handed by multimedia artist Emma Hercus won this year's $20,000 National Contemporary Art Awards. The collage on MDF of an abstract masked figure with upraised hands, was chosen… Audio, Gallery

A saxophone, Lime Scooters, a cash register and more than 17 cars are just a few of the items that have been found in the Waikato River. Deep Dive Division is working on getting them out of the awa. Audio

Consents granted to two companies allowing them to extract up to 8.8 billion litres of water each year from Christchurch aquifers have been quashed in the Court of Appeal.

Environment Canterbury… Audio

Dr Rawiri Tinirau, Pou Rauhi (Curator Maori) at The Whanganui Regional Museum talks us through their exhibition - He Awa Ora: The Living River.  Audio

A crowd of locals have given a behind the scenes look at Whanganui Port, ahead of its planned $50 million revamp.

It's the first community-led management project since the Whanganui River gained… Video, Audio

Those leading a new methamphetamine harm reduction programme in Murupara say Covid restrictions unwittingly highlighted the serious nature of the community's drug problem.

Te Ahi Mauri is modelled on… Video, Audio

It's time to catch up on news from beautiful Whanganui now where we join Local Democracy Reporting journalist Moana Ellis from Awa FM. She's just interviewed a traditional Maori baker who's rewena… Audio

Tom Oskam has built mountain bike trails in Australia and Canada and has returned to his family land on the Whanganui River to create tracks through the regenerating forest. The old woolshed is now… Video, Audio

The prominent Maori leader Sir Wira Gardiner has died at the age of 78.

He had been ill for a while, and stepped down as interim chief executive of Oranga Tamariki last year.

Of Ngati Awa, Te… Audio

Every week we like to take a trip around the nation to find out what's happening in our beautiful regions, and our LDR correspondent this week is Moana Ellis from Whanganui's Awa FM. Nathan Rarere… Audio