It would take you 2,535 years of non-stop shitting to produce as much waste as the Moa Point plant is expelling every day.

Drinking water is a fundamental requirement for good health; everyone drinks water, every single day. In New Zealand, that drinking water comes out of the tap, and the expectation is that it will be ...

With talks under way between Wellington and Washington, the jargon of 'critical minerals' is everywhere – so what are they, and why does the US care so much?

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Being designated a Karen is not something any sane woman wants, even those named Karen. But what if Karen has been misunderstood? What if she’s simply a perimenopausal woman doing her best to deal ...

How bad are nangs?

While most western countries are split by urban-rural political divides, Auckland votes almost exactly like the rest of the population. What makes it so oddly normal?

In ‘Harm’, Manhire personifies destruction as a beast “huffing and puffing / breathless by the time it knocked on the door.” Over the poem it is a relentless force, finding its way into homes and to ...

The quarrel over immigration and the free-trade agreement is more than just a matter of opinion.

Resignations, allegations of dysfunction and questions about costs have forced an early end to the group – before its flagship law change has even passed.

As Auckland’s rail network finally gets up and running, we're at risk of losing the upper North Island’s only regional train service.

As a nation, we're so anxious about being left behind that we're apparently unwilling to take a sober-minded look at this burgeoning tech phenomenon.