It's been dubbed the Temu Tax - but changes to the low-value levy won't be charged directly to consumers. The levy is charged to freight companies.

A new report profiles scientists cast adrift by recent government funding cuts - many enduring unemployment or forced to move abroad.

Summer holidays have long since faded for most workers and the realities of being back to the grind might be settling in. When do work grumbles or dissatisfaction turn into something else - like burnout?

For some, the words "arriba" and "andale" will always help conjure an image of an extremely fast mouse in a Mexican hat. Speedy Gonzales is making a comeback, years after he got cancelled.

Kaitlyn talks to Kathryn about the clean up after Cyclone Vaianu, the kiwifruit orchard in Tauranga being cleared for a housing sub-division, an award winning Tauranga barber who has been changing lives along with cutting hair and the historic stagecoach photo being reimagined as a painting for the Te Puke RSA

Renata Hopkins reviews Whidbey by T Kira Madden, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand.

On a February day Sally Wenley's boarding school took students on a picnic - she woke in Christchurch's Burwood Spinal Unit to learn she's a paraplegic. What happened that day is explored in Sally's memoir The Crash.

Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst looks at the tour by Harry and Meghan - who's picking up the security bill? The Opposition's new migration policy would introduce Trump-style social media checks for visa holders coming to Australia and a tragic death of a 14-year-old highlights the dangers of e-scooters.

Annika Smethurst is Victorian Affairs editor at The Age

The Koekoea, or long tailed cuckoo's, call signals the arrival of spring as they migrate back from the Pacific Islands. But they're in decline, and scientists need public help.

As The Boys heads into its fifth and final season, Kiwi actor Karl Urban remains its beating heart. Over four seasons he's turned the gravel-voiced, vengeance-fuelled Billy Butcher into an intriguingly complex anti-hero.