The Detail

Join The Detail team six days a week as they make sense of the big stories with the country’s best journalists and experts.

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A Kiwi on Ukraine's frontline

New Zealander Khol Gillies was fighting in Ukraine when he was badly injured, and he spent days in a bunker waiting to be evacuated
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A soldier from a Ukrainian 2S22 Bohdana 155 mm self-propelled howitzer crew of the Striletskyi special forces police battalion of the National Police in the Zaporizhzhia region walks along a trench at a position in the Pokrovsky direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on January 23, 2026. (Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto) NO USE RUSSIA. NO USE BELARUS. (Photo by Dmytro Smolienko / NurPhoto via AFP)

Playing Tetris with an ever-growing prison population 

The record number of prisoners are bouncing between facilities around the country, stretching court resources and rehabilitation programmes
Mt Eden Prison

Slash, storms and the fight over responsibility

Extreme weather may be the trigger for deadly and devastating slash, but the lines on who is responsible for prevention and clean-up are blurred
Flood damage in Punaruku, Te Araroa on the East Coast.

Changing our disaster focus

The floods keep coming, and we keep rebuilding. Is there a better way to cope with increasing numbers of infrastructure-wrecking storms?
The Gisborne District Council says flooding and slips have severely impacted Onepoto, Wharekahika and Te Araroa.

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