Last year, I left England and cycled across Europe to Turkey. It was a three-month, 6000km bikepacking trip that took me beyond the confines of tourist hotspots and introduced me to a whole community ...

Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior member from the group has said, after a fresh diplomatic push to end more than 22 months of war. Mediators Egypt and Qatar, backed by the ...

Perhaps, now that the All Blacks are proving to be unexpectedly adept at playing low-risk rugby, it’s time for them to question their self-determined belief that they are obliged to entertain as much ...

Scoring high on the originality scale, this horror movie taps into our fears about missing children and small-town retribution. At its heart is the disappearance of 17 primary sch ...

With more than 100,000 self-help books available, how do you pick one that will work?

Legal aid is under pressure but those who need representation should not be denied it.

Whanganui District Council will have an interim boss from October. Former Wellington City Council chief executive Barbara McKerrow takes over from David Langford, who leaves for the UK next month to ...

Likely the worst thing about the killing of security guard Ramandeep Singh in Auckland during December 2023 – not that there is anything good to be found in this entirely cynical and remorseless ...

Stalwarts of the fashion industry in Aotearoa, including Margi Robertson of Nom*D, Juliette Hogan, Jeanine Clarkin and stylist Sammy Salsa, nominate the names they’re most excited about right now.

The original architects of the NCEA over 20 years ago genuinely believed they were fixing systemic issues in our senior secondary school qualification framework. These issues included a narrow range ...

The family has a comfortable, politically aware, well-insulated existence, which includes a self-drive car named Stella and, for Vera, a communicative chess computer named Kaspie.

Get all three sports-related questions of varying difficulty (easy, medium and hard) and you claim the Herald hat-trick. Quiz compiled by Cameron McMillan. Want more quizzes? Test your knowledge in ...