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Our expert guest today is all about about bicycle maintenance, and how to keep your two-wheeler road worthy throughout the year. Josca Craig-Smith from Josca Bicycle Repairs in Mt Albert talks to… Audio

Since the age of 13, Claire Ma has been spending her free time supporting others with their mental health. The Tauranga teen founded the New Zealand branch of Letters to Strangers, the largest global… Audio

Listen in for the sound of the launch of SpaceX's Starship and the so-called rapid unscheduled disassembly of the booster yesterday.

It was the second test launch of the rocket.

The Starship made it… Audio

Australia has stunned hosts India in front of 120,000 fans in Ahmedabad to win the men's Cricket World Cup for a sixth time.

Australia quietened the wild support from the home crowd by dismissing… Audio

A slow-moving band of rain is soaking Taranaki, northern Tairāwhiti and the Ruahine Range.

New Plymouth had 20 mm of rain in the last six hours. 

MetService has issued a heavy rain watch for… Audio

Is life worth living after 90? Ask the experts! Writer Rachel McAlpine was shocked to the core when her GP predicted she would live to 99. Like most people, she had opinions about very old age but no… Audio

Culture 101 Arts News: November 19 2023 Audio

Marcus McShane’s latest experiment is to employ his cargo bike as a mobile video projection unit, screening commissioned audiovisual animation onto the upper floors of Cuba Street buildings as he… Video, Audio

Once considered a fringe science, circadian rhythms have gone mainstream. Professor Russell Foster is the Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford. His… Audio

Facial recognition technology is helping fight crime but it's also making the internet a less safe place to put your face, says New York Times tech journalist Kashmir Hill. Audio

After its most successful election - taking all but one of the Māori seats - Te Pāti Māori is amping up for the next three years as "the only true opposition". 

It's a dramatic turnaround for a party… Audio

Ukrainian-born Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk is the Auckland Philharmonia's guest for the mighty First Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky ... always a crowd favourite. Giordano Bellincampi… Audio

Wallace and panellists Claire Amos and Ian Powell take a temperature test on the ongoing coalition talks, and discuss the World Health Organisation's plan to address the 'loneliness epidemic'. And -… Audio

15-year-old Kapowairua pays tribute to the five tribes of Muriwhenua, from the most northern reaches of Aotearoa New Zealand, before performing a te reo Māori cover of Aradhana’s "Brown Girl." Video

The Israeli military has published a video, which has not been independently verified, which it says shows Hamas weapons and equipment found in Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital. Israel's army mounted an… Video, Audio

Professor Hamish Spencer says mohua, are not only one of our most accomplished vocalists, but visually striking species. Hamish speaks to Jesse. Audio

Claire Concannon meets GERALDINE, the Gigantic and Extremely Radical Atmosphere-Lacking Device for Interesting and Novel Experimentation. Plus, a team of scientists and engineers designing plasma… Audio

More details have emerged about an attempted breakout that ended in a stand-off on an Oranga Tamariki youth justice facility's gym roof. RNZ has obtained reports about the incident, revealing what… Audio

A New Zealand team of scientists and engineers are preparing to test their brand-new superconducting magnet and flux pump design on the International Space Station in 2025. Could this Kiwi tech make… Audio

Seventy percent of all new emerging pathogens in human health come from animal habitats. All the vet schools in Australasia recently came together with vet schools from 8 Asian countries to improve… Audio

The online system for school exams faces a test of its own Wednesday morning when thousands of teenagers try to log-in to the level two English exam.

Teachers say it is critical there is no repeat of… Audio

It's all go at the Canterbury showgrounds Wednesday morning, as the gates open for the annual agricultural show.

More than a 100,000 people came to last year's three-day event, and organisers are… Audio

Polling commissioned by a group advocating for cheaper public transport shows 71 percent of New Zealanders want the current discounts to stay.

In this year's budget, the outgoing government made… Audio

Domestic issues in front of mind for Micronesia president Wesley Simina. Audio

Some students with covid are still turning up to sit their NCEA exams. But the Auckland Secondary Principals Association is predicting illnesses will mean a lot more so called derived grades, based on… Video, Audio

New Zealand could find itself in breach of a free trade deal with Europe if it walks back on meeting its climate target for 2030.

The trade pact with the European Union includes a ground-breaking… Audio

A New Zealand charity is asking for urgent help to fix its broken medical aid ship stranded in Fiji.

Youth with a Mission Ships sails to remote Fijian islands to provide free healthcare, but 'The… Audio

Kiwi shoppers will now have the power to help critically endangered wildlife like Orangutans and help protest rapidly disappearing rainforests. A free, smartphone app called 'PalmOil Scan' has today… Video, Audio