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RNZ reporter Adam Burns spoke to some of Aotearoa's hip hop community about why Illmatic is so revered.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert tells the story of climate change in her new alphabetised essay collection H Is for Hope. As our world warms up, Kolbert hopes the book will help people understand both what's at stake and what is possible. "How are we going to get our minds around this both in an honest way and also in a way that inspires the kind of action that we need, which is absolutely massive changes to our energy systems?" 

Keith Anthony McEwen was sentenced to preventive detention for the abduction of a Dutch couple on their honeymoon.

The Rio bronze medallist says there were many moments over the last year when she thought she would not go to another Olympics. She was wrong.

Kiwi driver Andre Heimgartner has won the first Taupō Super400 in a wet day at the track.

Environmentalists have slammed a list of organisations who have been invited to apply to the Government's proposed fast-track approvals scheme.

The Blues have hammered the Brumbies 46-7 at Eden Park.

Robin Campbell - founding member of the Birmingham reggae-pop band UB40 - is excited to play a mix of classics and new songs at their two NZ shows this October. "I love playing old stuff, I love playing hits because that's what the audience comes for … but what gets me up in the morning is making new music and what gets me out on the road all the time is the opportunity to play our new music to the fans," he tells Charlotte Ryan.

Dictators, populists and online trolls can be blamed for the turmoil our world is in - but that's not the whole story, experts say.

A 40-litres-of-milk-a-day Friesian called Evie has been Supreme Champion Holstein at the New Zealand A&P Agricultural Show for two years in a row. Cosmo Kentish-Barnes meets the farmer behind the cow.