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FIFA Women's World Cup begins in Australia and New Zealand, some of the best female football players on the planet will miss.

A gene-edited plant is thousands of times less risky than a plant bred naturally. National’s policy suggests the long-term use and apparent safety of these plants overseas would mean they’d be considered safe to grow here, writes Andy Allan

Move comes as US and China push to build security links in the Pacific, and after Fiji said it was reviewing a policing deal with Beijing

Injured New Zealand all-rounder Michael Bracewell who will miss the ODI World Cup in India will need six to eight months to recover

Marine sponges have started dying in vast numbers in coastal areas around the globe. Just this year, thousands of sponges turned white and died in New Zealand and in the Mediterranean Sea. This has been happening when the water gets too warm, but the underlying cause has remained a mystery.…

Economists are at odds as to whether New Zealand books a recession when Stats NZ releases first quarter GDP data.

Remains of 95 ancestors, including six toi moko or tattooed heads, brought home in a move Māori leaders described as ‘healing’

Andrew Samson takes a statistical deep dive into England’s seismic change in approach and explains how the data supports it

Submissions are open now for the first Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival