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4:39 PM.Who would you want to name a street after? Why? Audio

4:33 PM.The Wu-Tang Clan and Barack Obama have been honoured with street names in New York and Los Angeles, respectively.  Read more Audio

4:28 PM.A Wellington café has stopped serving coffee in single-use disposable takeaway cups. Arobake customers must now bring their own cup in or can "hire" a reuseable cup - they get their $3 back when they… Read more Audio

4:19 PM.Some street artist say Auckland Council's graffiti policy is preventing art from flourishing. The rapid removal of graffiti in the city seems to be the problem, stifling artists from turning tags into… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Cabinet is today looking at the referendum into cannabis legislation for personal use that's set to be voted on at the 2020 election.  Read more Audio

4:03 PM.Cabinet is today looking at the referendum into cannabis legislation for personal use that's set to be voted on at the 2020 election. The National Party's revealed it's seen a leaked paper detailing… Read more Audio

3:55 PM.What the Panelists Jennie Moreton and Damian Christie have been thinking about. Audio

3:45 PM.There are some beautiful voices that are well-known for their narration and storytelling abilities.... Attenborough, Morgan Freeman, Emma Thomson..etc... Then there's Snoop Dogg.  Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Wallace Chapman is joined by Jennie Moreton, financial advisor with Craigs Investment Partners in Christchurch, and Damian Christie, journalist and director of Aotearoa Science Agency.

4:55 PM.Labour of Love is the name of a new app to help men appreciate the unsung work that their female partners do. It was the idea of a couple who were both busy with their careers and family duties, and… Read more Audio

4:51 PM.We're all being encouraged to take a leaf out of the Netherland's book, and niksen. Just do nothing. Audio

4:44 PM.Scrabble has accepted 2,862 new words. Youth culture slang phrases have been added in the first update since 2015. These include sharenting, blud and bae. Others such as incel, antivaxxer and fatberg… Read more Audio

4:31 PM.Have you been hurt in a bike accident? Tell us about it. A trauma study in the New Zealand Medical Journal has found that bike accidents resulted in nearly 1000 people sent to hospital around the… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.More business that sell out-of-date stock are springing up online and as bricks and mortar outlets. Love Food Hate Waste reports that New Zealanders throw away 157,389 tonnes of food every year. Are… Read more Audio

4:14 PM.The Government has announced a $95 million dollar boost in spending on teacher training over the next 4 years. The teacher shortage has seen the Government bring in 354 teachers from overseas. Andrea… Read more Audio

4:14 PM.A spat has broken out between the Labour MP Willie Jackson and National's Paula Bennett. In Parliament, Mr Jackson pretty much said that Mrs Bennett isn't Māori enough. He said she doesn't know if… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.The Government is to scrap a benefit sanction that saw solo mothers penalised by up to $28 a week if they didn't name the father of their child. Removing the sanction will cost $113.4 million over… Read more Audio

4:03 PM.The Government is to scrap a benefit sanction that saw solo mothers penalised by up to $28 a week if they didn't name the father of their child. Removing the sanction will cost $113.4 million over… Read more Audio

3:53 PM.What the Panelists Jo McCarroll and Rajorshi Chakraborti have been thinking about. Audio

3:44 PM.Rest in peace actor Peter Mayhew, who died today at the age of 74. Peter Mayhew of course most famous for his role as Chewbacca, one of the GREAT movie sidekicks I'm sure we can all agree ? Audio

4:56 PM.An increasing body of evidence suggests that the amount of time we spend on our smartphones is way too long. It's interferring with our sleep, self esteem, relationships, memory, attention spans, and… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.A 14-year legal battle over ownership of a painting looted by Nazis has come to an end. A judge in California has ruled the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, which has had Pissarro's "Rue… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.A raft of social media platforms belonging to Facebook are to have their privacy settings bolstered, after criticism about how the company protects user data. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it's a major… Read more Audio