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Loan to Value restrictions on banks may be scrapped, A week of accusations in Parliament this week, over party fundraising, and MP's interactions with wealthy donors. Audio

Topics - the results of the latest Roy Morgan Poll. This bears mention, it's the first indicator of trouble in the polls for the government. The Speaker has cleared New Zealand First MP Denis O Rourke… Audio

Topics - the Drug Foundation is asking police to hold off from prosecuting people for possessing synthetic cannabis or party pills under new legislation. Judith Collins had one more Question Time this… Audio

Topics - Judith Collins will be taking leave from the house, but before she goes she had to face question time in parliament. Both Collins and the Prime Minister were asked questions about her visit… Audio

Topics - First the ongoing Judith Collins saga. Clearly the Opposition still smell blood. They say new emails released confirm she had a conflict of interest over the Oravida affair. They're calling… Audio

Topics: Russia continues to claim it won't invade Ukraine, as activists storm buildings all over the Eastern part of the region. Chats about politicians: Maurice Williamson, NZ First's Mr O'Rourke and… Audio

Topics - Maurice Williamson has resigned as a Minister. It follows revelations he contacted a top ranking police officer after a wealthy businessman with close ties to him was arrested on domestic… Audio

Topics - more thoughts today on Labour's monetary upgrade, a policy which has been seriously and widely discussed since it was announced yeterday morning. A budgeting service says people who don't… Audio

Topics - A Christchurch resident says he just wants to get on with his life after his house was flooded for the ninth time since the 2011 earthquake. Fairfax newspapers today feature the story of an… Audio

Topics - New Zealand's most prolific serial stalker will be freed from jail next month - and tracked by GPS, after the Parole Board rasied concerns about his "appalling record" and the threat he still… Audio

The hike in the OCR, did we need it? As we contemplate higher mortgage rates the big Luxembourg Income Study has interesting revelations about how the middle classes, but especially the poor of the… Audio

Topics - Shane Jones says he's not a 'sellout' for leaving the Labour party to take up a position created by the National-led Government. The MP has blindsided his Labour Party colleagues by… Audio

Topics - Crime statistics suggest that more than 2000 families will have returned home from the Easter break to find they have been burgled. And Act says it is the only New Zealand political party… Audio

Gale force winds and driving rain have caused road closures, power outages and slips around the country, Getting high before work is common for a wide range of New Zealanders, Joe Karam has been… Audio

Topics - The Minister of Justice Judith Collins' Beijing dinner with Oravida boss Stone Shi and a senior Chinese border control official came after the company made a formal request to ministers to… Audio

Topics - The export company Oravida is using a picture of Prime Minister John Key in an ad in a Chinese magazine. But Mr Key's office says the use of his picture doesn't explicitly endorse the… Audio

Topics - A new two million dollar fund has been launched to urgently help community groups to meet increased demand after Canterbury's earthquakes. The Need Help Now Fund is part of a special 25… Audio

The scandal surrounding Judith Collins and her Beijing dinner with an unnamed Chinese official, and the question of whether we need to continue supporting Lydia Ko with taxpayer money. Audio

Topics - Phillipstown School will bring another round of legal action against the Education Minister Hekia Parata over her final decision to merge it with Woolston School. Ministry officials arrived… Audio

Topics - Auckland employers were issued a challenge today to hire a young unemployed person. At a business "summit" hosted by Mayor Len Brown the Warehouse founder Sir Stephen Tindall pledged $1.85… Audio

Topics - Seven major Hollywood movie studios have filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Megaupload and its founder Kim Dotcom. The film companies filed the legal action through the… Audio

Topics - An official welcome for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Government House appeared to run quite smoothly this afternoon. Although their arrival was delayed because of fog in Wellington… Audio

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme is calling for swift, concentrated and global action to respond to the escalating risks such as reef damage and rising sea levels. Audio

New Zealand top of the world in Harvard's social advancement survey - are you surprised? The Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust and its money shortfall, again. Audio

Topics - The Prime Minister has made clear there'll be NO election year lolly scramble coming in next month's Budget. Dairy product prices had the biggest drop in almost 20 months at Fonterra's latest… Audio