Antti Tuomainen writes grisly crime novels from his home in one of the happiest countries on Earth: Finland -- only he makes them funny. Deeply, darkly funny.

The use of the C-word has sparked quite a debate this week. Language expert, Andreea Calude explains the evolution of swearing.

A bus service with a difference has been breaking records for patronage down in Timaru and it's now set to become a permanent feature of the city's transport system.

MyWay by Metro the city's on demand public transport service, which was introduced as a trial back in 2020.

It's been so successful its now here to say after recording more than 267,000 passenger trips in the last financial year.

It is the biggest night in New Zealand literature -- the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

We will be crossing live to the winner of the General Non-fiction category.

New Zealand's pay equity claim system has been cancelled -- and all thirty-three claims will be started again from scratch.

The goal of pay equity legislation was to give deals to work forces that have been historically undervalued because the workforce is majority women -- and this involved making comparisons between different jobs, like a librarian and a fisheries officer.

Fiona McMillan is a partner at law firm Lane Neave - and until last week, she was working on pay equity claims like this.

Te Pāti Māori MPs will be temporarily suspended from Parliament for "acting in a manner that could have the effect of intimidating a member of the House" after performing a haka during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke will be suspended for seven days, while co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi will be "severely censured" and suspended for 21 days.

It is getting colder but the cold does not dissuade people who swear by the restorative powers of open ocean swimming. 

And hey, it might just work for you.

Simon Olliver is the president of the Canterbury Open Water Swimming Association, he's been an open water swimmer for thirty years

On Sunday, the failed Soviet Cosmos 482 crashed back down to earth fifty-three years after it was launched into orbit. But this isn't the first time pieces have crashed through the atmosphere ... even finding their way to NZ.

CAR T-cell therapy is giving hope to cancer patients around the world. While not currently available in New Zealand, a clinical trial is underway at Wellington's Malaghan Institute.

Private helipads are becoming more common. In 2019, New Zealand's civilian helicopter fleet was six times bigger per capita than that of the U.S.