Stories by Lucy Smith

The artistic creations of one Upper Hutt plumber.

Sharing a living space can be like setting yourself on fire. It’s painful, but it was your decision.

Students and yo-pros answer the question.

With rents rising and incomes not keeping up, it’s getting desperate out there.

Performance-enhancing drugs aren't just for athletes. Students around the country will be taking them right now.

Mohamed Hassan is one of the biggest names in NZ slam poetry. Next week he'll be competing against some of the best in the world.

You might laugh about being on a taxpayer's holiday, but being on the benefit is mostly pretty shit.

On the streets of Wellington, a running battle is fought week by week between scrawled names and the blank patchworks of paint that cover them. Lucy Smith meets the taggers and cleaners in the middle.

It's Privacy Week so The Wireless picked the brains of the experts to bust some common myths about your business.

Money makes the world go around - and just a small amount has made a difference to the lives of three women in Myanmar.

Schools are free to decide how they teach it, so what we learn (and don’t learn) can vary wildly from one school to the next.

Students write a script to encourage people who self-harm to reach out.

Five years into the rebuilding of Christchurch, in our Shake Up series we talk about the legacy of the earthquakes with some of the people making the city a better place.

Five years into the rebuilding of Christchurch, in our Shake Up series we talk about the legacy of the earthquakes with some of the people making the city a better place.

Five years into the rebuilding of Christchurch, we talk about the legacy of the earthquakes with some of the people making the city a better place.

Five years into the rebuilding of Christchurch, we talk about the legacy of the earthquakes with some of the people making the city a better place.

Five years into the rebuilding of Christchurch, we talk about the legacy of the earthquakes with some of the people making the city a better place.