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A proposal to rein in horses roaming a small eastern Bay of Plenty town has some residents gee'd up.

Hoiho have been wandering freely in Ōpōtiki for years, but the council recently proposed stamping… Audio

In Jerusalem thousands of right-wing nationalists are taking part in a contentious march - despite warnings that allowing it could renew conflict.

The event risks reigniting tensions with… Audio

Do nothing and a big bill is what New Zealanders might face if change does not happen. That's the conclusion of a ream of studies looking at water reform released by the government today.

The… Video, Audio

Fears of a second volcanic eruption near Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have led to another mass exodus from the city.

Tens of thousands of people are evacuating - many on foot… Audio

School leavers hankering for a career in sheep and beef farming now have the option of applying for a place in the new two-year, fees-free Growing Future Farmers programme that sees them training… Audio

Travel between New Zealand and New South Wales will be paused from 11.59pm tonight.  Audio

Composer Michael Williams is writing an opera which focuses on the global refugee crisis. Act One of 'D'ua (Prayer) for Broken Shelter' has had its first performance after a week of workshops in… Audio

The United States has announced sweeping sanctions against Russia, expelling ten of its diplomats and targeting forty-six companies and individuals.

The White House blamed Moscow for a range of what… Audio

There's been a plague of mice in NSW. The ABC's Lucy Thackery joins us from Dubbo with the details. Audio

D-day has come for Matatā residents in a red-zoned debris flow risk area, and they are now squatters on their own land.

In 2005, the Awatarariki fanhead on the coast of the Eastern Bay of Plenty was… Audio

The hunt for a wine collection believed to have been hidden in a remote Georgian winery during the Second World War is at the centre of a new book, Stalin's Wine Cellar. First owned by Nicholas II… Audio

On the 1st of February Myanmar's military carried out a coup, seizing control of the country, undoing a democratic election in which Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by… Audio

Waikato dairy farmers are doing their budgets for next year and there's no shortage of ways to spend their increased fortunes. In the South farmers are trying to set up for winter but it's dry. Audio

Technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang examines the drive of capitalism into the Chinese countryside, for better or worse.

From a childhood fascination with cooking, to possum trapping and living off the land as a hunter and forager, Annabel Langbein has always been obsessed with food. A 2020 Word Christchurch highlight.

More now on our story about the failure of a government programme set up to reduce sudden deaths of babies.

Formerly known as "cot death", sudden unexpected death in infancy - or SUDI - generally… Audio

Fraser McGougan is an Eastern Bay of Plenty dairy farmer. He is the new chair of the Dairy NZ backed Climate Change Ambassadors group - 13 dairy farmers from properties throughout New Zealand. They… Audio

Waves from a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake are expected to already be hitting New Zealand's shore.

The quake has prompted mass evacuations on the east coast of the North Island.

… Audio

A massive evacuation effort is under way throughout the north of the country, following an 8.1 earthquake off the Kermadec Islands at 8.30am.

It has triggered tsunami waves expected to reach New… Audio

Commodore of the Classic Boat Club of Southland Brian Railton is on a quest to restore a century old fishing boat to its former glory. Brian found the twenty seven foot vessel in Dunedin in a fairly… Audio

Fiji Police have warned there are illicit drugs more lethal than methamphetamine being produced in the country. Audio

Officials are scrambling to see if they can do anything for the Whakatāne Mill, where more than 200 jobs are at risk.

As the largest private employer in the eastern Bay of Plenty, the mill is slated… Audio

New Zealand deep sea explorer Rob McCallum is about to undertake a journey to the deepest point of the world's ocean. He and Australian colleague Tim Macdonald will be descending in a submersible the… Audio, Gallery

Cyber crime is continuing to rise. Last year, the government received 5712 reports of cyber incidents which cost mostly small businesses $14.2 million. NZ Tech chief Graeme Muller offers the top three… Audio

For over 40 years Scottish man Andrew Whitley has been on a mission to change the way our bread is made. He says the spongy white stuff that dominates supermarket bread aisles was originally developed… Audio

This week's critter is an incredibly rare and endangered small fish known as the Dusky Galaxias. Audio

The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee releases its 14th annual report this morning, looking at how New Zealand is tracking with deaths of mothers and babies and recommending changes in… Audio

Waikato is trucking steadily into a drought and Marlborough has seen one of its earliest picks for pinot noir bubbles. Audio