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The Bigger Picture: Heartbreaking stat behind hoiho’s bird of the year win

Hoiho is avian popularity contest’s second two-time winner - why it really needed the win.

Moving mountains: The maunga sacrificed for the Waikato Wars

Poet & GP Glenn Colquhoun on memories stirred by walking Great South Rd.

Listener weekly quiz: September 18

If you were at a honbasho, what sport would you be watching?

Orange Ohinemuri a wake-up call on historic mining waste

Colour outshone toxicity, but flow of mine waste into historical river is a wake-up call.

Mahé Drysdale: Why he stuck his oar into Tauranga politics

The Hewitson Profile: How rowing great won the Tauranga mayoralty as an outsider.

Buyer beware: What we want others to know about our retirement village experience

Selling up to move into a retirement village proved a sobering experience for this couple.

Space clean-ups, astro-mining and moon tourism: NZ's role on the final frontier

How NZ is helping with the world's new space race.

Why your son might be struggling to stay afloat—and how you can fix it

US expert reveals hidden struggles of NZ boys along with ways to turn their lives around.

Listener weekly quiz: September 11

What was French singer Édith Piaf’s nickname?

Devastating choices for pet owners as soaring costs & veterinarian shortages bite

Vet shortage in midst of pet ownership boom leaves many carers making hard choices.

The Bigger Picture: Big Norm

Saturday marks 50 years since the death of Norman Kirk in 1974.

Listener weekly quiz: August 28

10 quick general knowledge questions to test your general knowledge.

Jobs for life: How to prepare for a career that doesn’t yet exist

Top tips on how to train for a career and stay in work.

As Paris Paralympics begin, NZ athletes urge greater sport accessibility

Access all areas: Those making sports more accessible for all.

Oscar Kightley: 'You get a bit more frightened as you get older'

Oscar Kightley on why he wrote the play Dawn Raids - and why he doubts he'd do it now.

Listener weekly quiz: August 21

Texas is home to some of the US's biggest cities, but which one is the state capital?

The new funding crisis facing our Citizens Advice Bureaus

Why are CABs facing funding cuts as their workloads shoot up?

The young NZ leaders shaping tomorrow and hoping for a brighter future

Young environmentalists, activists and creatives pave the way for a more hopeful world.