Fleeing Iran as a teenager was easier than parenting

Watch the first episode from the new season of Conversations With My Immigrant Parents.

Cheap rent, compromise and stigma: What it's like living with your parents in your 30s

Is it time we get over the stigma of living with your parents as an adult?

We built an off-the-grid life but it took a lot of privilege

“I'm trying to do things now that are going to be helpful for our descendants in like 200 years"

NZ is in a recession. What does that mean?

And what can we do to get out of it?

Reclaiming our traditions by not using a surname

“The thing that I don’t agree with is that Māori have to have a last name, that is wrong”.

Why I care about decolonising the ikura/period

"...society and wāhine have so much to learn about the way that our tupuna were innovators.”

Germany returns Māori and Moriori remains to Aotearoa

Those involved say a significant amount of work has gone into returning these ancestors.

I tried to survive two days in the bush with no gear

Scientists say we are overdue for a major earthquake across the Alpine Fault.

Off The Grid Week: What happens when you ditch the rat race

It sounds freeing. But what would it actually take?

Do you know what the clitoris looks like?

No, that's not a coat hanger, tailbone or the fallopian tube. That my friend, is the clitoris.

New clinics offer free drug checking five days a week

Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin are getting a new regular drug checking service.

Hawai’ians natives inspired to learn language by Māori

"If people do not use the Hawai’ian language, it will cease to exist."

The clitoris: Explained

What we all may think is the clitoris - is just the tip of the iceberg.

Dogs love us so much they cry happy tears when they see us

"Dogs have become a partner of humans, and we can form bonds."

The online movement inspiring rangatahi to take control of their money

Research shows rangatahi Māori are driven by creating financial security for their whānau and hapū.

Does Invercargill deserve the title of ‘NZ’s Shittest Town’?

“It kind of sucks here, but at least we’re not Gore.”

'Stories you don't see anywhere else': Here's our award-winning stories

Re: News won best specialist publication at this year's NZ media awards.

These women share their breast cancer journey

Wāhine Māori are 1.4 times more likely to die from breast cancer than non - Māori.

Tradies just wanna have sanitary bins at work

“I wish men had more thought for people outside of their own bubble.”

What sex advice would you give to your younger self?

“As a bloke, perhaps I'd say to blokes, it's all about the woman.”

Brown Pride: The South Auckland gym ‘by the people, for the people’

Part of the gym's funding was facing the axe as part of Auckland City Council budget cuts.

Rangatahi talk financial goals

Honey Ellis (Tainui, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a social worker turned TikTok educator.

Why my mum could not attend my University graduation in Hawaii

Irene Tawa is the first person in her whānau to graduate from college and managed to do it abroad.

The TikToker helping rangatahi grow their cash

The Māori Money Movement series is created in partnership with Sorted.

Rain anxiety is now a thing thanks to floods around NZ

“It feels like all my climate anxieties are coming true and everything feels so out of my control.”

The Ministry of Education has failed Kura Kaupapa Māori

"For Māori by Māori in Māori education works – I am proof. Now the Crown must invest in it."

‘The way we work is shit’: junior doctors are burning out

New research says medical doctors were more at risk of burnout than any other profession in NZ

Is post-nut clarity a thing: an investigation

There's no research to understand the phenomena or its implications on sexuality and sex culture.

Breaking down the Budget for my fellow dumbasses

How to sound smart if somebody brings up the Budget this weekend.

AI could make our lives better – but not at its current speed

"I have seen enough movies to know how this ends."

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