Trip to the beach ends with $18m Powerball win

Summer has arrived early for a West Auckland couple, whose trip to the beach ended with an $18.2 million Powerball win.

Baby language parents’ guide delights

How babies learn to talk and how parents and grandparents can assist this process is the fascinating basis for Talking Baby: Helping your child discover language, by child language specialists Margaret Maclagan and Anne Buckley.

Summer literacy programme to roll out in South Island

Blogging at least twice a week as part of a University of Auckland digital literacy programme has completely eliminated the summer slump in literacy for the children involved.

Things that annoy Kiwi kids most about road trips

A recent survey has confirmed the five things that irritate Kiwi kids most during family road trips. Annoying brothers and sisters take top honours with 36.9 percent saying that they are their main gripe during car journeys.

$40,000 of travel up for grabs in helloworld Travel Art competition

Thanks to the generous support of helloworld Travel NZ, The Sir Ray Avery Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the Amigo School Nutrition Art Competition.

The nationwide art competition is open to all New Zealand school children aged between the ages of 4 - 14 years of age.

Distance learning approach helps win teaching award

A Massey University tutor’s approach to learning, including her work with distance students and incorporating mātauranga Māori into teaching, is being celebrated with a national teaching award.

Britflix streaming service ramps up in NZ

 - The Anglophile’s cup of tea: streaming service Acorn TV reveals new slate of captivating drama and crime thrillers

- Acorn TV drops library of addictive drama and crime thrillers

Parliament’s Platinum rating for accessibility

Social enterprise Be. Accessible completed an assessment of Parliament’s public tours and educational visits and awarded them a score of 94%. This falls in Be. Accessible’s Platinum rating (90% - 100%).

Te Ara Oranga continues to reach those in need

Health practitioners, support services and the community as a whole have hugely benefitted from the flow on effects of the Te Ara Oranga Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) programme at Whangarei Hospital's Emergency Department (ED).

iPhone 11 and 11Pro available to pre-order from Vodafone on 14 September

Vodafone today announced it will offer the latest products from Apple, including iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, a new pro line for iPhone, as well as the new dual-camera iPhone 11.