Flooding update: death toll rises to four
A train has derailed, a bridge has collapsed and houses caught in landslides near Tauranga.
We need a new way to talk about extreme weather
Climate change means discussing weather as “one-in-100-year events” doesn’t work anymore
Auckland flooding: Here's what you need to know
Auckland is in a state of emergency due to "unprecedented" flooding and rain.
'I don't think I'd cope': Aspiring politicians react to Jacinda Ardern hate
NZ police reported that threats against the prime minister had nearly tripled over three years.
Half of people with penises are unhappy with its size - but why?
Health experts say anxiety over penis size can affect people’s sex lives.
Why summer drownings are the worst in 40 years
Since December, more than 30 people have drowned in our waters.
What I learned when I crashed three different Lunar New Year celebrations
This article was originally on the 7th February, 2020.
“A lot of people actually don’t know how to make dumplings,” says Helen Yeung, founder of Migrant Zine…
Teens should start school an hour later, NZ researchers say
While two-thirds of teens report good overall wellbeing, researchers say many don’t.
Young workers are more burnt out than any other age group, but why?
“It’s been two years and I still haven’t recovered.”
In Photos: Jacinda Ardern’s time as Prime Minister
After five and a half years, Jacinda Ardern is stepping down. We look back at some key moments.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to step down
Ardern says she ‘no longer had enough in the tank to do it justice’.
Town of Russell could soon go back to its original Māori name
The Bay of Islands town was well known as Kororāreka until the early 1840s.
The music festival trying to fuck up Christchurch’s conservatism
The top two tiers of the lineup are over 50% female, over 40% queer and 22% people of colour.
Three animals died at NZ rodeo events this summer
Could this be NZ's last rodeo season?
The ozone is slowly healing decades after humans destroyed it
But NZ will always have a UV problem
The scent of summer: why asparagus makes your pee smell
It’s sort of unclear why some people can spell asparagus piss and others can’t.
Here are some of the biggest stories we told in 2022
Ukraine, 2000s Babys, and our first official Matariki. What a year.
Meet the people disrupting NZ’s skate culture
"It’s whanaungatanga. It's more than, like, skating."
I want to remove my uterus because my endometriosis is so painful
“Even breathing too deeply makes my whole body feel like it's on fire."
Homophobia is driving queer people out of small towns in NZ
People in the rainbow communities say homophobia attacks aren’t rare in small town New Zealand
A Brave New Iran: a revolution unfolding
"Iranian Generation Z is fresh, bold, and brave. Our fear doesn’t exist in their young minds."
NZ’s public health system is failing trans people
Thousands of NZers need gender-affirming chest surgeries. The Govt provided 10 in 2021.
‘It’s not safe for us’: Indian NZers on the rise of the far-right
The community is concerned a Hindu supremacist ideology is growing in Aotearoa
'Modern day slavery': How Aotearoa treats seasonal workers
The current treatment of seasonal workers breaches eight different human rights.
I'm straight but I give guys blow jobs as a side hustle
What it's like being a male sex worker
Who came first? NZ’s top towns for buying sex toys revealed
Did you have Palmerston North becoming the sex toy capital of New Zealand on your 2022 bingo card?
I have herpes and you probably do too
Eighty percent of people with genital herpes don’t know they have it.
It's a fucked up world. That won't stop Gen Z from trying to make it better
In the face of so many challenges, what keeps young people fighting?
Vaginismus is a common health condition. Why is it so ‘taboo’ to talk about
Many people with vaginismus - involuntary tensing of the vagina - feel it's not taken seriously.
The AI portrait app you love is 'soul-crushing' for NZ artists
“It is extremely harmful to artists but I don’t think many people are aware of that.”
