The Covid response and Jacinda Ardern's personal popularity were decisive factors, while talk of strategic anti-Green voting appears to have been overblown.
If you live in an apartment, or just don't like leaving your couch, there are still plenty of ways to feel connected with the outdoors.
Guess which country finds its prime minister more trustworthy ...
This summer, more of us than ever are biting the bullet and heading out into the great outdoors for the first time.
A constitutional crisis could result if it is invoked to remove an unfit president who is unwilling to give up power.
A Department of Conservation staff member provides a handy guide to dealing with menstruation, and menstrual products, in the wild.
Three scholars discuss what a Biden presidency may have in store in three key areas.
Plus: a state-by-state breakdown of Senate races across the United States.
Do lockdown repeats work, and how long will they last?
The strain of the experience, writes a returning NZ citizen, is compounded by the opprobrium.
This is a huge opportunity – and a wero – to demonstrate commitments to diversity, write four sector engineers.
With New Zealand in headlines for what promises to be a successful elimination strategy, we have an opportunity to use that influence in international relations.
Nurses are the first people you’ll meet if you think you have Covid-19. Here, one of our frontline workers describes how the virus has transformed her working life.
A Department of Conservation staff member provides a handy guide to dealing with menstruation, and menstrual products, in the wild.
16 year old climate activist Greta Thunberg has given world leaders at the United Nations a harsh and furious dressing down.
All the polls pointed to a Labor win in Australia yesterday. That's not what happened at all, writes Michelle Grattan.
Biochemist Stuart Thompson tracks the banana from its origins on the island of Mauritius to its current endangered status.
Massey University's Sean Phelan and Leon Salter look at the role media played in of one the biggest controversies of the last election.
What does an ageing population actually mean in an economic context, and are we thinking about it all wrong?
If you were one of the few people who used it, you might have noticed Google+ has just closed down.
Christchurch shooting survivor Farid Ahmed, whose wife was killed on March 15, spoke at the National Remembrance Service today. This is his speech.
While we're learning to listen to the younger generations on other things, it's time to prioritise tamariki voices about our smokefree future too.
An Auckland secondary school teacher posted some thoughts on the climate strike. They were smart and pithy thoughts, so with permission, we're republishing below.
Pussy Riot’s Masha Alyokhina has been travelling from Auckland to Wellington overnight to join SOUL (Save Our Unique Landscape) in presenting a petition to MP Marama Davidson on the steps of parliament this morning.
The 'perfect' office temperature? It's a myth
All week this week we revisit the great poet James K Baxter on the occasion of a new book of letters. Today: a selection of the letters written in 1969.
