Financially it was a lemon the moment Covid closed the borders - so how did Auckland do when it came to hosting the America's Cup? Was it worth it? And should we do it again? 

RNZ: The Detail

Drawing a line under Auckland's America's Cup

Desperate kiwis are paying thousands for clever computer operators to get them a space in MIQ, because booking a spot is proving impossible for ordinary travellers. 

The MIQ nightmare

Three closely aligned nations, three different political approaches, and three very different results when it comes to the path taken by the pandemic. 

Political moves pushing the path of Covid-19

Everyone has to pay their fair share of tax - but worldwide, the big tech multi-nationals have been getting away with paying far less than others. There are plans to change that.  

Taxing the big tech companies

Inflation's hit a 10 year high, and although fuel and houses are largely to blame, the food that we grow in abundance is expensive. Why? 

The sky high cost of living in New Zealand

Elderly people are being targeted by scammers in heart-breaking numbers. They rarely get their money back, and often they're too ashamed to admit to having been sucked in. 

Wide open targets - the elderly and banking scams

Our divorce laws are 40 years old - and there's a renewed push to change them to reflect the realities of the 21st century. 

Splitting the difference - our divorce laws

Nurses have more industrial action planned as frustration with shortages and pay boil over - what's behind the anger? 

Behind nurses' anger over wages

The Restaurant Association has a long wish list for the government to help its labour shortage situation - but does it need to look internally at the wages and conditions of hospitality workers? 

Our faltering hospitality model

Is a sports world without doping an impossible aspiration? David Howman, director-general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, talks drugs and testing. 

The science of beating the drug testers in sport

While New Zealand and the Cook Islands are bubbling away, the Covid-19 situation in what used to be our biggest Pacific tourism destination, Fiji, is horrifying - and out of control. 

The Covid disaster hammering Fiji

The Tokyo Olympics might have been delayed a year but somehow it's still snuck up on us - here's the rundown on the New Zealand team. 

The Covid Olympics are nearly here

The consequences of a wasteful Kiwi lifestyle are getting harder to ignore. Our landfills are filling fast and it's getting more difficult to find new sites. We do have waste minimisation levers, but change is slow. 

Waste minimisation efforts slow to take hold

RNZ's Red Line podcast sees two journalists dip their toes into unknown waters - our carefully balanced relationship with China.  

China is the relationship we don't understand

The building boom is in full force - but with it comes an ugly side effect. Construction waste is an increasing problem. 

The booming problem of construction waste

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