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New Zealand
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NZ endometriosis research to influence local policy-making
6:47 am todayCurrently, experts in Aotearoa have had to rely on international data to understand the condition.
'Can still get to the pub': Whangamomona president shrugs off floods
Person seriously injured after falling from car
Pacific
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Dengue scare alert at Pacific Mini Games; one athlete under medical care
Palau's Health Ministry is asking athletes, teams, visitors and the people of the islands to protect themselves as much as possible from mosquito bites.
Macron suggests new options for New Caledonia’s future status
Nauru signs two landmark agreements in Majuro
Sport
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'Few loose screws': Warriors wahine promise physicality in NRLW return
5 Jul 2025Opponents won't know quite what to expect from the largely untried line-up, after four years in the wilderness.
Rugby live updates: Waratahs v British & Irish Lions
Rugby live updates: All Blacks v France
Politics
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The House: Making law - a final avalanche of edits
Before laws are finalised, MPs get a last chance to argue for changes. Pav Sharma, whose office manages them, explains the purpose, rules, and process for the many amendments.
Prime Minister's office only given hour's notice before Winston Peters' speech dismissing 'trade war'
Green housing advocates celebrate no roll back of insulation standards
World
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Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama hopes to live past 130
12 minutes ago"I have done my best so far. At the least, I hope to still live for 30 or 40 years more," he said to a room filled with devotees and reporters.
Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne head home for their last show
Death toll in Pakistan building collapse rises to 21
Comment & Analysis
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Many Americans want a third party. But what would it be?
4 Jul 2025Analysis - Americans are entrenched into their partisan corners, but the party lines keep moving in weird new ways.
Trump is not like other presidents – but can he beat the ‘second term curse’ that haunts the White House?
Memo to Shane Jones: What if NZ needs more regional government, not less?
Local Democracy Reporting
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Glitch sends one person's rates bill to up to 1000 ratepayers
5 Jul 2025The council's chief executive, Doug Tate, said they were made aware of an issue with the rating system on Friday morning.
Fresh push for four-lane highway from Rolleston to Ashburton
What is Local Democracy Reporting?
In Depth
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Health Ministry manager 'way too friendly' with alcohol lobby
30 Jun 2025After internal alarm about an official's dealings with the alcohol industry, new rules of engagement are being drawn up.
Watch: 30 minutes with the 'Godfather of Human Rights' Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and standing up for democracy
Scoring the coalition government's progress against its own targets
Te Ao Māori
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Māori-Greek artist takes a slice of Aotearoa to the Big Apple
4 Jul 2025Jimmy James Kouratoras' Hei Tiki - For the Love of Our Ancestors painting is currently being shown in New York's Theatre District and has featured on a 10-metre high digital billboard.
Mātauranga Māori science fair applies traditional thinking to modern-day problems
Māori landowners take Crown to High court over freshwater rights
Business
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How to keep your power bill down this winter
4 Jul 2025The price of electricity has gone up almost 9 percent in the past year and 20 percent of Kiwis are struggling with their bills. Audio
West Coast companies sentenced after workers collapse in toxic gas pit
Workers at New World Victoria Park destroyed by fire facing redundancy
Country
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Plant production 'underrated' in horticulture, says 2025's NZ Young Plant Producer
Jake Linklater won the prestigious award in his hometown of Christchurch.
Country Life: On the Farm
Country Life: Crooked Vege's pay-what-you-can model feeding families two years on
Environment
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Oyster farmers' 7-year battle with Watercare
2 Jul 2025A group of oyster farmers in the north of Auckland have reached their breaking point over sewage overflow and want the government to intervene. Audio
Our Changing World: Protecting 'Jaws'
NZ pulls out of global coalition for phasing out fossil fuels
Media & Technology
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Remember early, grainy digital cameras? Gen Z wants them
4 Jul 2025Young people are embracing the grainy, nostalgic vibe of early digital cameras so they can spend less time on their phones.
Can you turn off generative AI?
How Lisette Reymer became an accidental war correspondent
Identity
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How did we become known as 'Kiwis'?
16 Oct 2024How did residents of Aotearoa New Zealand come to be called by the name of a flightless brown bird? Audio
Turning Palmerston North into the 'capital of drag' in Aotearoa
X-plainer: Who are Generation X?
IndoNZ
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Assault of migrant worker in Auckland sparks protest
5 Jul 2025More than 30 people gathered in Henderson on Saturday, demanding justice for a migrant worker who was assaulted at work.
How the events of 1984 affected Indian Sikhs
Indian business community divided on trespass law reforms