3+ hour, 58+ min ago   (974+ words) Closing the door on attending organised church was not hard for me. That may sound callous, but the conversations my husband and I had been having were clearly pointing us in that direction. We didn’t see things changing anytime soon,…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (457+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google Leading historians have slammed the Government’s proposed axing of nearly 50 staff positions at the state repositories of books, papers, and memory, the National Library and Archives NZ. Staff were told last week that a restructure proposal…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (765+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google The UK’s Andy Burnham manages to turn a TikTok chat about bread rolls into a serious discussion about the future of the political system. New York’s Zohran Mamdani makes a message about rubbish bins sound fun....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (113+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google The last time I ever saw my father happyhe was on the deck smoking a cigarette,watching the mouths of snapper stipple the bay’s steel blue surfaceto feed on clouds of invisible plankton.The seabirds would…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (95+ words) Newsroom Business news in association with The developer behind a controversial solar project in the Mackenzie Basin has stopped paying fast-track fees to buy time, after concern over the risk it poses to one of the country’s rarest birds. If…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (86+ words) Newsroom Business news in association with The fair trading watchdog is investigating commercial cleaning company Crewcare after receiving dozens of complaints about mis-sold franchise contracts and intimidation. Numerous people spoken to by Newsroom say they invested $30,000 in buying a franchise…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1355+ words) LockerRoom in association with Kim Cadzow’s cycling ascension seemingly came out of nowhere, and so too, did the end. At least that’s what it looked like when she announced in August she was retiring at the age of 24. Having only…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1440+ words) LockerRoom in association with There’s a distinctly slower, more deliberate pace as Olympic gold medallists Alicia Hoskin and Dame Lisa Carrington paddle across Lake Pupuke. Carrington is eight months pregnant and Hoskin is on a long road to recovery from…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1169+ words) Newsroom We met in an outdoor bar in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where she lives. She won the Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2018 Ockham awards for her third novel, The New Animals. It was acquired for US publication in 2023 by cult…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (63+ words) Newsroom In the Waiariki electorate, the race is a family affair. Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, Green candidate Tania Waikato and Labour’s Toni Boynton can all trace their whakapapa back to some of the same tūpuna. - Bonus subscription for…...