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Disability lobby groups are pushing for a speed limit for electric scooters on footpaths. Blind and Low Vision New Zealand spokesman Chris Orr joins the discussion to talk about how dangerous they… Audio

Thirty-five workers at two Bunnings Warehouse stores have received some shocking Christmas news; they may not have jobs after Friday.

Staff were alerted on December 18 that there could be… Audio

Women love pockets on their clothes, yet are continually stifled by pocket inequality, writes Hanna Jane Parkinson in a recent Guardian piece. 'Pro-pocket' Kiwi fashion designer Vaughan Geeson weighs… Audio

Reece Clarke was an alcoholic at 15 and Walter Wakefield was living on the streets at 10. Against huge odds, the two friends graduated from Otago Polytech this month with Certificates in Health and… Audio

A Waikato woman who still bares the scars of burns to 60 percent of her body has endured more than 25 surgeries since childhood.

Donna Gregory Marshall was burnt on her arms back and shoulders after… Video, Audio

More than a hundred years since the Tūhoe pacifist Rua Kenana was unlawfully imprisoned, the Crown has pardoned him and acknowledged its wrongs.

Close to 200 of Rua Kenana's descendants gathered at… Video, Audio

It's believed an anonymous tip-off prompted a police investigation into New Zealand born multi-millionaire businessman Sir Ron Brierley, who is now facing child abuse image possession charges.

Sir… Video, Audio

Tauranga City Council has finally voted in favour of gifting a piece of contested land back to a hapū, after a year of going back and forth.

The previous council had vetoed this at the end of last… Audio

People who claim hearing Christmas music - especially well in advance of December - does their head in mightn't be that far off the mark. Dr. Linda Blair joins the show to explain why these tunes… Audio

West Auckland rapper and hip hop artist Tom Scott won Album of the Year and Best Hip Hop Artist at last month's New Zealand Music Awards. His album, Avantdale Bowling Club is a fusion of jazz and hip… Video, Audio

A United Nations expert is calling on the Fiji government to address violence, discrimination and inequality that threatens the realisation of people's right to health in the country. Audio

The moon landing of 1969 gets its ultimate cinematic presentation, according to Dan Slevin. Video

A justice advocate says she's not surprised by the findings of a Ministry of Justice report that 26 percent of the most highly victimised people are Māori.

The Crime and Victims Survey also found… Audio

Four percent of people experience nearly half of all crime each year.

The Justice Ministry has just published its latest report from the Crime and Victim Survey looking at this group, called the… Audio

Young people, Maori and single people are some of the most vulnerable people in the country because they are victims of repeat crime each year.

The Justice Ministry has just published its latest… Audio

Thousands of commuters in Auckland will have their ride home from work disrupted this evening as a third of the city's buses remain out of action due to a heated industrial dispute.

Drivers working… Video, Audio

While they are quite happy to make some of their content here, don’t hold your breath waiting for Amazon Prime to start making genuinely local programmes, says Dan Slevin.

A city bigger than Dunedin - that's how many New Zealand children are living in serious poverty. It's just one of the findings in the 2019 Child Poverty Monitor, examining hardship in New Zealand. The… Audio

Irish singer songwriter and outspoken advocate Pauline Scanlon is a driving force behind a movement to address gender equality in folk and traditional music.  She's one of the headline acts at the… Audio