How to Use Stuff (stuff.co.nz) for New Zealand News

Stuff (stuff.co.nz) is a New Zealand news site covering national and world breaking news, video, audio, podcasts, sport, rugby, politics, business, entertainment, lifestyle, travel, and property. Use it when you want NZ-focused reporting in one place; go straight to its section pages or search if you already know the topic, and use the homepage when you want to scan what's breaking.

Getting to the site and reading the homepage

Open stuff.co.nz. The homepage is built for scanning rather than reading top to bottom:

• Lead stories and breaking news sit at the top, so the most recent or most important items are visible first.
• Video and audio/podcast content is surfaced alongside written stories rather than hidden in a separate app.
• Section links let you jump from general news into a specific topic without scrolling the whole page.

If you arrive for a specific reason (a sport result, a political story), skip the homepage and go directly to that section.

Finding the main sections

Stuff organizes coverage into clearly named verticals. The ones named in the site's own description are:

Use the section navigation to move between these. Each section behaves like its own feed, so once you're inside Sport or Politics you can keep scanning that topic without returning to the homepage.

Locating a specific story

When you know what you're looking for, two tools do most of the work:

1. Search — enter a keyword, name, or place to pull matching stories. This is the fastest route when you remember a headline or subject but not its section.
2. Navigation menus and filters — use the section menus to narrow by topic, and region or topic filters where they're offered to cut a national feed down to what's relevant to you.

A practical sequence: search first for a known story; if you're browsing rather than hunting, pick the section, then apply a region or topic filter to reduce noise.

Video, audio, and podcasts

Stuff treats video and audio as first-class content, not add-ons. They appear within the site's coverage and have their own organization, so you can:

• Watch video clips attached to news stories or collected under video.
• Listen to podcasts and audio content grouped together rather than scattered.

If you prefer listening or watching over reading, start from the video or audio/podcast areas instead of the text homepage.

Free news vs. anything gated

The site's description presents Stuff as a general news destination covering all the sections above. The available information does not specify any subscription tier, paywall, or login requirement for Stuff content, and no pricing signals are given. That means:

• Treat the news, video, audio, and podcasts described here as the site's standard offering.
• Don't assume a paid tier exists, and don't assume everything is unrestricted either — the source material simply doesn't state access terms.
• If you hit a prompt asking you to sign in or subscribe, follow that on-screen instruction; it's the only reliable signal of what's gated at that moment.

For free news, the section pages and homepage are the natural starting points, since that's where the site's described coverage lives.

A quick workflow

• Just want today's news: open the homepage and scan the top.
• Following one topic: go straight to that section (Sport, Politics, Business, etc.).
• Looking for something specific: use search, then refine with region or topic filters.
• Prefer watching or listening: head to the video or audio/podcast areas.
• Checking access: if a login or subscription prompt appears, respond to it there — the site's public description doesn't define a paywall.