Learn about bloodsuckers from legends to leeches and donate some too at Auckland Museum next weekend.

Essayist, poet and now novelist Michelle Rahurahu's first novel Poorhara has been praised by critics as "possibly the best Aoteraroa novel of the year."

Award-winning story-teller, poet and all-round national treasure Owen Marshall's latest collection of short stories, New Stories is about sliding doors moments.

Efforts to secure a global treaty to cap plastic pollution failed at a meeting of almost 200 countries in Busan, South Korea, this week.

Acclaimed Australian photographer Ponch Hawkes has photographed five hundred naked women aged over 50, stripping off with them.

Books unlock a new world of learning but what if you don't have access to them or can afford them?

Scrutiny Week at Parliament has just wrapped up, but was there much of that or more ducking and diving?

A coroner's inquest has shed light on the years of bullying Podmore endured, and how conditions did not improve for her, despite an independent review.

Incident Commander Collin Russell is on the ground and has just had a briefing with fire crews overnight. He joins Susie with the latest.

A new study by Ihi Research has also found that four out of five homeless women in Aotearoa are Māori, with some being as young as 15-years-old.