This year marks the 25th anniversary of Woman Far Walking, and the premiere of a new bilingual version. Sam Brooks talks to the playwright Witi Ihimaera and actor Miriama McDowell ahead of the show’s ...

We mark Halloween with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the debaucherous MPs, fires and feral animals that haunt parliament’s past.

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In his first face-to-face encounter with Donald Trump, Christopher Luxon has exchanged hair jokes and golf banter, shared a view on tarrifs and, unlike so many of his counterparts around the world, ...

The 1985 Booker judges Marina Warner, JW Lambert and St John Stevas, supported The Bone People; but judges Nina Bawden and Joanna Lumley vocally and publicly opposed the violence in the novel and ...

Tara Ward talks to Anne Hegerty, aka The Governess, as she prepares to tear New Zealand quizzers to shreds on The Chase NZ.

West Coast of New Zealand. He is a fourth generation mixed Chinese/European descendant - he describes himself as a translator of sensory perception. He has been published by NZSA ‘Top of the South’ ...

It’s a hard truth, but one we have to acknowledge if we’re going to move forward as a country, writes Hayden Donnell. In the second month of spring, half the trees in the South Island blew over. In ...

The number of deaths caused by Samoa’s measles outbreak. Most were children under five. The percentage of the population that needs to be vaccinated against measles to achieve immunity and prevent ...

The prime minister's face-to-face encounter with the US president was brief, informal – and by all accounts, a diplomatic coup.<br /> <br /> ...

In-depth reporting backed by solid evidence inspires trust – but the concept of what’s 'trustworthy' depends a lot on people’s own perspectives.

The final book from the beloved writer of novels for children and young adults lays bare her trials, triumphs and faith.