The Latest Breaking News from Aotearoa

Climate change impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand are real and future risks are high, according to the latest report released today by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Two years ago today, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Aotearoa New Zealand. Few of us could have imagined the huge impact this pandemic would still be having two years later.

From Castlepoint to the Mātakitaki river, New Zealanders are in awe of the natural world around them

Waning immunity, media fear-mongering and fast-paced predictions. The University of Otago's Matthew Parry answers some questions about Covid modelling. 

Countering social media's power to target misinformation should be the first order of business as Aotearoa emerges from the pandemic, writes Nicholas Agar.

A tribute to the great New Zealand literary translator Geraldine Harcourt, who created an "unfathomable kind of magic".

New Zealand is a safer place for women than many Latin American countries, but there is still much work to do until we can call Aotearoa a place free of violence against women.

Allan Ramsay looks back on his 31 years away from Aotearoa, finally finding it was the call of te ao Māori that drew him home.

Within a month of the first community exposure to Omicron in Aotearoa New Zealand, the variant has already become the dominant strain of COVID-19.