AArtificial intelligence Read More Straker, repositioning as an AI firm, inks $28m deal with IBMOctober 31, 2025 A presentation for Straker’s August 20 annual meeting made no bones about why it is repositioning itself as…
MMental health Read More Youth mental health crisis: New reports shed light on what’s driving it and why social media is an ‘amplifier’October 30, 2025 The second report – Addressing Youth Mental Distress – builds on this by reviewing what works to improve…
EEntertainment Read More Jane Birkin inspired a pricey bag, but she was more than an accessoryOctober 19, 2025 “I assumed,” she replies. “Five years,” he adds. “For a bag?” she says, shocked. “It’s not a bag,”…
NNew Zealand Read More New HBRC councillor wants chair role: ‘I’m not there to be an ornament’October 15, 2025 Neil Kirton was top on 10,599 and last term’s chair Hinewai Ormsby was third on 8436. Ormsby said…
NNew Zealand Read More An insider’s guide to Diwali in New Zealand: Traditions, food and how to join the Festival of LightsOctober 10, 2025 Why is it called ‘Diwali’? Rama, Sita and Laxmana in the forest during exile, painted circa 1652. Photo…
AArtificial intelligence Read More Dr Michelle Dickinson on keeping your family safe in an AI world – The Little ThingsOctober 3, 2025 “None of those people I would leave alone with my children,” she says. Dickinson is staunch about not…
HHeadlines Read More Jessie Morgan’s sex with an underage teen leaves a trail of despairOctober 2, 2025 The jury acquitted him of all charges he defended. At his sentencing on the sexual connection charge, the…
BBooks Read More Read an exclusive extract from Nigel Latta’s new book Lessons in LivingOctober 1, 2025 Nigel Latta was a successful author, host and psychologist. Photo / Supplied A seat at the edge I…
BBusiness Read More Tutukākā’s Quality Hotel Oceans is an ideal spot for a getawaySeptember 24, 2025 First impressions: Tutukākā is much closer to Whangārei and Auckland than we expected, thanks to the new motorway…
SSports Read More Schools rugby: New Zealand Schools beat Barbarian U18s in an 85-point fiesta; Māori U18s pushed hard by Chiefs U18sSeptember 22, 2025 Schools will be looking to avenge a 31-38 loss to Australia U18 at Waikato Stadium last year and…
NNew Zealand Read More Coroner: Deaths of friends on way to Rhythm & Vines an ‘avoidable tragedy’September 17, 2025 The exchange turned violent and the fight spilled from the back of the car they were in and…
HHeadlines Read More Violent Bay of Plenty hostage-taker Jade Mellow gets an extra 15 months added to jail sentenceSeptember 17, 2025 About 10pm that night, Mellow was parked in a car near Edgecumbe with a cut-down .22 calibre rifle,…