A cruel form of entertainment, or a community event showcasing farming skills? Reporter Paloma Migone visits some of the country's rodeos to find out how they tick.

Insight's presenter, Philippa Tolley heads to the shops to find out why bricks and mortar stores are doing so well, despite bleak predictions of an online shopping takeover.

2016 has been a tough year for Northland police. Seven homicides, the biggest meth haul in New Zealand history, a growing pile of child abuse files, and a workplace survey that shows officers are frazzled. Lois Williams asks has the region become 'the lawless North'?

RNZs police reporter Carla Penman asks, are protection orders are worth the paper they are written on?

Phil Pennington and Tim Graham share the stories and events from the first days of the 7.8 earthquake that ripped the land apart, caused massive slips, cut off Kaikoura and towns nearby and severely damaged homes and farms.

Teresa Cowie heads inside two of New Zealand's prisons to find out more about rehabilitation programmes and whether they are working.

Robin Martin asks what response is being planned for the effects of climate change on homes and who is likely to foot any bills?

Philippa Tolley and visual journalist Rebekah Parsons-King investigate the current state of the sex industry more than a decade after it was decriminalised under laws nicknamed "the NZ Model."

Lynn Freeman returns from India and looks at efforts to quell conflict between people and wildlife.

Andrew McRae travels to the centenary commemorations of the Battle of the Somme and asks whether the thousands of lives sacrificed by New Zealand on the battlefield count when it come to trade relationships with Europe now.