The government won't admit it yet, but The Spinoff is calling it: New Zealand has no viable path to reach its 2030 emissions targets.

We made art about cones and snitched on people who used too many of them, but there was a twist coming.

The 3G shutdown is a reminder of how quickly digital technology has become essential to modern life in New Zealand, and the danger of people having their forms of communication shut off if they’re not ...

The Trump administration plans to make NZ visitors submit sweeping personal data, including social media, family details and even DNA.

Uh, did anyone else notice the new RMA gets rid of the rules we’ve been using to ban dense housing in places like Ponsonby, Thorndon and Herne Bay?

After swapping Wellington for London, Preyanka Gothanayagi was surprised to find people treated her like an actual person.

The Friday Poem is brought to you by Nevermore Bookshop, home of kooky, spooky romance novels and special edition book boxes.

From the end of March 2026, we'll no longer have a 3G network. What does that mean for all the people who have yet to upgrade their devices?

The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. Some are ...

If the OECD was a workplace, New Zealand would be the dead weight – the colleague who turns up each day, switches on their computer, makes a cup of tea and manages to achieve sweet fuck all for the ...

Even AI true believers worry that we’re in a bubble – maybe even a ‘meta bubble’. Duncan Greive asks how New Zealand would survive it popping. Last week marked three years since OpenAI debuted its ...

Alex Casey spends a morning testing the many hydroslides at Parakiore, New Zealand’s new largest recreation and aquatic centre. Yesterday the ribbon was cut (awkwardly into abou ...