14+ hour ago   (1155+ words) The family of a Christchurch woman who was murdered by a patient who absconded from a psychiatric hospital has asked why it took their mother's death for changes to be made at Hillmorton. Laisa Waka Tunidau was stabbed to death…...

21+ hour, 4+ min ago   (669+ words) People learning te reo Māori should not let the fear of getting it wrong stop them from using the language, Māori Language Commission chair Professor Rawinia Higgins says. With Te Wiki o te Reo Māori taking place from 14-20 September, Higgins…...

19+ hour, 2+ min ago   (645+ words) Financial adviser Niran Iswar says almost every rental property he's ever owned has lost money - and he thinks more people are coming around to the idea that it's not always a surefire way to make money. Iswar, who is head…...

20+ hour, 59+ min ago   (960+ words) In a new five-part bilingual podcast for RNZ, Eugene Bingham, Adam Dudding and James Dansey find themselves surrounded by te reo Māori. Along the rail corridor, through the backcountry, and past backyards where kunekune pigs roll about in the dust,…...

22+ hour, 34+ min ago   (755+ words) Labour has been "ankle tapped" by National on KiwiSaver according to the managing director of Simplicity, but the wife of Sir Michael Cullen, who got the scheme going, says the party's found the "perfect solution." It comes as Nicola Willis…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (603+ words) Labour will make employer contributions to KiwiSaver compulsory, as well as raise the minimum to 6 percent even when employees reduce or pause their own, with the party saying it wants to make the retirement savings scheme "work harder for more…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (71+ words) RNZ Kiwi Kelle Howson joins us from Cape Town, where she’s helping in the fight against poverty in South Africa. As part of the Institute for Economic Justice, she’s at the forefront of a landmark campaign for a Universal Basic…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (203+ words) There's been great anticipation in Auckland with the long-awaited City Rail Link opening to the public on Sunday Morning. The CRL, which took over a decade to complete and faced massive cost blowouts, is New Zealand’s biggest infrastructure project and…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (743+ words) The recent release of BlackMill Games' Gallipoli: Ottoman Fronts has been met with some pointed questions, including whether the video game is "mimicking the war". Between landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 and the eight months of fighting that followed,…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (915+ words) Analysis - Just when parents thought nothing could convince young people to reduce their social media use, here's an idea that could work. Teenagers and young adults who saw warnings that social media could harm their health said they were discouraged…...