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Business people and heritage workers in Fiji's UNESCO world heritage site of Levuka say the historic town and its people need help after Cyclone Winston. Audio

New Zealand craft brewers have taken on the tricky task of making light alcohol beer tasty. Audio

Nick Tripe is a pear grower at Glenfield Orchard in the Mangamahu Valley, about 40kms north-east of Whanganui. He talks to Kathryn about the joys and challenges of growing pears and the best way to… Audio

Player eligibility remains a tricky issue for Pacific rugby league countries. Audio

Should tricky issues be battled head-on and to hell with being PC? Audio

Jeremy Taylor presents a wilfully eclectic grab-bag of recent new music releases including the sophomore effort from London quartet Savages, an expanded reissue of Badly Drawn Boy's superb Mercury… Audio

Rod Millen is a New Zealand and international motor racing champion who has lived in the United States since 1978. He now commutes every two weeks between California and Hahei in the Coromandel . Rod… Audio, Gallery

The tricky earthquake off Whakatane 24 hours ago that confused sensors, Geonet and much of the North Island has shown up a glaring hole in the country's earth-quake spotting abilities. Audio

Long before Caitlin Jenner came out, people who feel they have been born in the wrong body have taken steps to change what gender they're identified as. What's changed now though is that some… Audio

Professor John Hardy's work was recognised last month with a US$3 million award from some of the biggest names in the world of technology. He's studying the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer's… Audio

There are over 120 native orchids in New Zealand - with over half found nowhere else in the world. Many of them are threatened and have unique conservation values, but a big danger to them is that… Audio, Gallery

The police ruffled feathers in the media by rifling through the home of a TV journalist this week. She had bought a gun to prove a point and break a story. But they say she broke they law and will be… Audio

Writer and social researcher Maggie Hamilton on the tricky transition for girls from tweens to teens. The stress of fitting in with the in-crowd, or feeling you are on the outer. Maggie Hamilton gives… Audio

A representative of the UN children's agency UNICEF says Vanuatu needs political stability for good decisions to be made over the drought situation which will last for months. Audio

At the start of daylight savings for this summer season we look at the challenges of measuring time and the tricky hurdle of leap seconds. Audio

Adding air puffs that we produce during speech to mobile phones and hearing aids might make understanding conversations in noisy environments easier Video, Audio

Jon Spencer has been twisting blues, rock and hip hop into new shapes for three decades. He sits down with Sam Wicks to trawl through a selection of deep cuts from some of his biggest influences. Audio

Seven weeks ago severe flooding affected many areas in the lower half of the western North Island. Many farmers are still picking up the pieces, especially in the Whanganui/South Taranaki region. It… Audio, Gallery

The Bikini Island community displaced by nuclear testing seventy years ago is now appealing to the United States for help, in order to find a new home as the island they were sent to suffers from sea… Audio

The number of Cook Islands Maori speakers are declining but a language class in New Zealand hopes to buck the trend. Audio

Emirates Team New Zealand has finished 2nd at the Louis Vuitton America's cup world series. Ray Davies is a tactician on the boat, he told me conditions out on the water had been tricky. Audio

Times were tough for the New Zealand Communist Party at the start of the Second World War. They opposed the fight against Adolf Hitler and as a result, their newspaper, People's Voice, was suppressed… Audio