Term two means winter sports season is underway, with kids signing up for all manner of activities. Which can come with considerable cost. Unless you're a student at Waitara High School.

Anthea Ibell began making jewellery from plastic waste as a way of educating people to reduce their plastic consumption. And then a Prime Minister wore a pair of her earrings and suddenly her small social enterprise became a burgeoning business with thousands of orders. It meant Anthea could get some flash equipment and work from home, but she's never lost sight of her core values and the message behind the making.

Every year Eden Park transforms itself into a nine hole golf course. Jeremy went along for a whack with international cricketers Will Somerville, Maddy Green, Fran Jonas and Izzy Gaze.

A healthy meal and a smile from Harriet Campbell is bringing small moments of peace to those wearied by war in Ukraine. Heading to the worn-torn country for the fifth time in three years, we catch up with Harriet ahead of her journey. On the eve of a tenuous ceasefire proposed by Russia .. Sacha McNeil caught up with the aid worker ahead of her trip.

Every year during the New Zealand Comedy Festival five comedians are nominated as finalists for the Billy T Award. The lucky few are tasked with writing and presenting a brand new show which will run over the next few weeks. We meet the latest batch of hopefuls and put them through their paces.

With temperatures plummeting around the country of late we’re all desperately trying to warm up. If you haven't already, it could be time to pop on the electric blanket. But before you do, make sure it’s safe.

Every provincial town in New Zealand has a big hearted person like Waipukurau's Gaye Campbell. Her community spirit is limitless, helping those "on two legs and four." Cue ASB Good As Gold!

They're the brick and tile of many meals - stats show most households are serving them up weekly. We went looking for answers about the definitive way to cook them. You might have been doing it wrong.

Just over a month ago they were wowing Penn & Teller audiences in Vegas, now LaserKiwi are back on our shores! No not the popular flag from the infamous 2015 referendum... this is the hit trio who bill themselves as the world's only surreal sketch circus!

The comedian known as Chopper has become a familiar and popular fixture on the New Zealand chuckle circuit. His act is inspired by Australian criminal Mark Chopper Read, an underworld enforcer who became a cult hero.