People
How to help when your friend has a controlling partner
True support is often about standing alongside your friend rather than making decisions for them.
The moment I knew my relationship was abusive: three people share their stories
‘If I chose to hang out with my friends, they would be angry with me.’
How to spot controlling behaviour in a relationship
It’s repeated behaviours that make you feel shit.
Learning from the moana: Fridays on the water with Hokianga students
Every Friday, these rangatahi are at the beach learning how to fish, dive and surf.
We’re fighting to stop poo flowing into Hokianga harbour
When it rains, waste overflows into Hokianga waterways.
Growing up in Waimā as a Waitangi performer
‘Sometimes being on the grounds feels mamae.’
Takeaways and lack of jobs: What’s hot and what’s not in Hokianga
Rangatahi at a gym in the Hokianga tell us what’s hot or not about their region.
Getting my autism diagnosis at 16 changed my life
“You actually have a sense of knowing who you are when you get that diagnosis.”
Life as a country boy in Waimana
“Would I ever move to the city? No. Never, never, never.”
Hot or Not: Whakatāne edition
“I can go to the beach, go out hunting, go all around…rivers and everything.”
Life as a teen on the isolated West Coast
‘There's a lot of people that feel lonely growing up here.’
Life as a teen after leaving Gloriavale
“I imagined life outside Gloriavale would look sad…but that’s not true at all.”
How often do you talk to your siblings?
“I can talk to her about other things that you can’t talk to mates about.”
From hope to hardship: Filipino migrants find refuge in shipping containers
"We can endure whatever can happen to us here but not our family, they can’t go hungry."
Navigating sexual violence and support as a young Asian person
“I'm not even supposed to be alone with a boy. It's so much harder to explain I've been raped."
If you’re lonely, you’re not alone. Loneliness is reaching epidemic levels
“Loneliness isn’t just a matter of finding more friends for people.”
1 in 3 young women and non-binary people are bullied at work, survey finds
More than half of people bullied said it was because of their age or their gender.
Why is it harder to make friends as an adult?
“The opportunity isn’t there”
‘Dungeons and Dragons come to life’: Three NZers on why they LARP
"It basically feels like spending the weekend in the sun, which is kind of rare these days."
How Palestinian and Jewish NZers are feeling, one year on from Oct 7
Today marks one year since October 7.
The reality of getting a job post-conviction
Programme aims to give ex-prisoners a second chance at life.
“Colourism has followed me all my life”: Why I photograph migrants
Photographer Abhi Chinniah is running towards melanin, not away from it.
James Rolleston: from ‘Boy’ actor to brain injury survivor
The actor is competing on Celebrity Treasure Island to raise money for a road safety charity.
Should the learner licence period be twice as long?
We asked two young NZers what they think can help reduce NZ’s high youth road death toll.
Growing up Tongan in Timaru
Two young Tongans talk about feeling at home in South Canterbury.
Stop asking people if they’re going to have kids
“People put their own values onto us and think they know better for us.”
How to get a job when you've never had one
“It’s about looking outside the box … on what you can do rather than what you haven’t done.”
Nangs to the door: the curious rise of NZ’s ‘whipped cream’ industry
Why the hell am I so aggressively being advertised whipped cream paraphernalia?
Life as a funeral director: ‘Serving my iwi by doing this mahi’
People in the funeral industry say they consider their work an act of service.
3 teenagers tell us what pride means to them
Celebrating pride in schools gives queer students a “light at the end of the tunnel”.