Pull out onto any state highway in the summer and you’ll see scores of recreational vehicles (RVs) trundling the length and breadth of New Zealand. Many are rented by holidaymakers on a classic Kiwi road trip. However, more and more people are investing in their own caravans and making them their own. And a growing number of people even live fulltime in these tiny homes on wheels.

Plenty of myths about lice abound. But what is true is that grown-ups can get hit with the nits just as much as kids

These Wellington boat sheds – some of them important local landmarks – mean many things to many people.

Words: Rachel Helyer Donaldson Photos: Tom Collier

A young Wellington couple talk about designing and building their first home, a tiny house on wheels, and reveal what it’s really like to live in a whare iti in winter.

Words: Rachel Helyer Donaldson Photos and video: Tom Collier

On any Saturday in Wellington and you’ll find scores of shoppers descending on Moore Wilson’s sprawling three-storey flagship. The capital has reinvented itself as a culinary hotspot, known for its great cafes and restaurants, flavour-packed craft beer and mind-blowing coffee. At the heart of this food scene is Moore Wilson’s, a cash and carry store known as the place where chefs shop and routinely described as a Wellington institution.

As trend cycles accelerate, some retailers are offering a new way for shoppers to balance the desire for new goods with budget constraints, by leasing and renting everything from e-bikes to the latest phone, and baby clothes.

A selection of articles written for Wellington street magazine Regenerate.

The Tomorrow’s Schools Review taskforce’s recommendation to replace the Education Review Office with the Education Evaluation Office signals a major change to the way schools are monitored. But will schools welcome the change?

Shoppers want the latest fashions as soon as they see celebrities wearing them. How do retailers keep up with the Kardashian fans? 

Call it fast-fashion, disposable fashion or the ASOS effect: consumers’ insatiable appetite for new clothing and straight-off-the-runway trends at affordable prices shows little sign of waning.

Massive leaps in technology throughout the past two decades have made huge differences to the ways in which we communicate. Many NZ schools are already moving to educate their students for this fast-moving world

Should we be focusing on teaching our kids to problem solve and communicate? Or is it more important for them to have a foundation of knowledge?

With an increasing number of Year 1 to 8 children with depression, severe anxiety and a tendency for self-harm, the need for counsellors in primary and intermediates schools has never been higher. By Rachel Helyer Donaldson.

Plenty of everyday men – and women – turn to alcohol or drugs to ‘self-medicate’ or cope with anxiety and depression. Rachel Helyer Donaldson talks to some New Zealand experts on the issue.

The past decade has seen a proliferation of pop-up shops, farmers’ markets, food trucks and temporary collectivesale spaces. Rachel Helyer Donaldson explores how rising retail rents and the smaller start-up costs associatedwith running a mobile shop...

GPs are readying themselves for the annual onslaught of recurrent respiratory problems that are the direct result of living in cold, damp and mouldy housing.