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Getting through Mother's Day when you're struggling with infertility
The "invisible grief" of infertility means it's easily overlooked around Mother's Day, says Ms Dickinson. "There is so much media marketing around Mother's Day; you can't go to the shops without ...
Tama Toki: Bringing the energy to Great Barrier Island
Entrepreneur Tama Toki's new venture Aotea Energy is solar energy project for rural communities on Aotea/Great Barrier Island. The venture involves setting his community up to be energy independent, ...
US considers offering Greenland 'free association' as quest for island intensifies
Under the plan, Trump would propose to Greenland's leaders that the island enter into a so-called Compact of Free Association ...
Couple's journey from 'disaster' hemp to award-winning soil mix
A next-generation living soil developed by a husband and wife in their Taranaki backyard has been named Germany's Garden Product of the Year. Frank and Michelle Lachmann are the owner-operators of ...
Sorrow for the Sami: Elin Anna Labba
Elin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and writer from Sápmi, the regional homeland of Sweden's indigenous Sami people. Elin's nonfiction book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow, the forced displacement of ...
Black Ferns vs Wallaroos: What you need to know
McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle Live blog updates on RNZ Sport The Black Ferns' big year starts this evening in Newcastle, as they use the ...
Motorbikes and towers: Elspeth Beard
Back in 1982, the broken-hearted 23-year-old Elspeth Beard set out on the solo adventure of a lifetime - clocking up 35,000 miles and becoming the first British woman to circumnavigate the globe on a ...
Basketball: Tall Blacks, Tall Ferns lose out to Australia in Trans-Tasman second round
The Tall Ferns and Tall Blacks have both been beaten by Australia in the opening games of the inaugural Trans-Tasman ...
'Another Nakba': UN committee warns of new mass expulsion in Palestinian territories
The world could be witnessing "another Nakba" expulsion of Palestinians, a United Nations committee warned on Friday, accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and saying it was inflicting "unimaginable ...
Feedback sought on proposed Covid-19 medicine changes
Pharmac is seeking public feedback on a proposal to simplify the criteria for people to receive Covid-19 antiviral medicines.
Taking a look at taonga
It is New Zealand Archeology Week this week and Tuhura - Otago Museum has a Treasure of Tiwai event on. People can go along and see artefacts recovered by the McFarlane family at Tiwai in the 1960s - ...
New Pope Leo XIV, celebrating first Mass, wants Church to be beacon of light
Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday (local time) in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours ...