Summer

Stop crushing your cans, you're sending them to landfill

It's time to squash our can-crushing habit.

Your fear of sharks is irrational but not your fault

More New Zealanders are injured every year by alpacas and rabbits than by sharks, according to ACC. 

100 years of New Zealand summer: In photos

To celebrate the arrival of summer after the weird year we’ve had, Re: has dug through library archives to find a collection of photographs that capture…

Summer with Delta: How to stay safe

We asked an expert what to watch out for.

Revealed: the sunscreens that don’t live up to their SPF claims

Who's slipping, who's slopping, and who's slapping?

Iwi urging travellers to stay home this summer

We can travel this summer, but should we?

Manifesting summer from South Auckland's front yards in lockdown: in photos

Photographer Geoffery Matautia aked his friends what they're most looking forward to in summer.

Festival drug-checking services will now receive government funding

Drug-checking services at summer festivals will receive government funding for the first time.

“She’s sexy, playful, feral, and free” - Lorde’s back with new music...

It may be winter here in Aotearoa, but today, it’s a hot Lorde summer.

40 percent of MDMA in NZ this summer was actually cathinones

Drug checking organisation Know Your Stuff has found nearly 40% of MDMA was actually eutylone.

Why people are taking the 'date rape' drug

With rising hospitalisations from liquid ecstasy experts say drug checking at festivals is needed.

Festival of Play

Festivals of Play are hitting Auckland this summer, with brand new games in the sunny outdoors that parents and their tamariki can all enjoy ☀️? You…

Sprout - holidays for aspiring angels

Sprout Summer Camp is a hippie paradise making the most out of Aotearoa's beautiful outdoors. The camp kids surf waves not the web, do a little…

Hello hammerheads

A school of baby hammerhead sharks was spotted in the shallows of Great Barrier Island over summer. Have you seen any sharks while you've been out…

Auckland's stank beaches

Thanks to some problematic sewerage systems, most of the beaches in the metropolis that is Tāmaki Makaurau are full of, well...

Sign language for summer

Sunshine and flowers blooming are signs that summer is just around the corner. Here's Eric to teach us some NZ Sign Language to help us through…