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Best beaches: Opito Bay
Opito Bay: snorkelling, diving, boating, fishing, shellfish hunting, picnicking, paddling
Opito Bay: snorkelling, diving, boating, fishing, shellfish hunting, picnicking, paddling
From Mosquito Point to Bason Botanic Gardens, Whanganui was out in force.
Wanganui Collegiate School's first West Indies cricket tour match rained off
Over 1300 people signed petition against turning Pt Chevalier Kindergarten into a daycare.
A new breed of schools is taking kids out of classrooms and letting them go wild.
Sweet and sour siblings served with a liberal helping of messages about morals.
Parents are fuming that a shopping centre has swapped out play equipment for screens
Emotion-as-drug tale off-theme toward end but more than enough here to satisfy.
COMMENT: Questions to Ardern have shamefully revealed the extent of the patriarchy.
A petition signed by 210 children has restored monkey bars to climb on in Grey Lynn Park
Interview-derived show offers surprisingly eloquent take on shared sense of identity.
Women join Softball Club for men and team wins. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Arsonists leave $40,000 bill after setting fire to slides in children's playground.
Can't understand Te Reo? Hakarongo Mai will help you out. This year, the live translation service for Te Matatini launched an app to help non-Te Reo speakers keep up with performances. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
COMMENT: Today we mourn but let's also look forward to a new Christchurch as it becomes our most beautiful city.
Comment: New ways of teaching have some merits, but many flaws.
A senior theatre lecturer says the historical justifications for casting only men in an upcoming Shakespeare production aren't accurate.
An Auckland early childhood teacher died after the melanoma she thought she beat returned 10 years later.
Every parent knows - it's a constant struggle managing children's screen time. In Rotorua, there's an answer. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
We all know the pain of that person who's impossible to buy for - but what about the furry companion in your life?
The kids at Onekawa Plunket are the latest victim, as the rate of crime grows across the Eastern Policing District. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
When Wheelchair Football becomes a Paralympic Sport, these Cambridge sportsmen will be Paralympians. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
COMMENT: Kids are on to a sweet thing now, unlike early trick-and-treaters.
Drones and their popularity have come a long way since their introduction to the market.
The male calf arrived in June, bringing the total number of white rhinos at the zoo to six.
Customers vent fury when told not to play game that has taken world by storm.
What Olaf Hojgaard finds - and what he becomes - is wide open to interpretation: are all the views misleading or odious or only some?
Laurel Devenie is tackling her biggest acting challenge yet - working with 1000 toy pandas.
There was only one thing that mildly irked Joyce Irving when she got her performance schedule for A Midsummer Night's Dream: she wouldn't appear every night.
Gameplanet unveils its most anticipated games for 2015.