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Former Nelson MP Dr Nick Smith has announced he'll be throwing his hat in the ring for the region's mayoralty.

The veteran politician retired from Parliament last June, after an inquiry was launched… Audio

Nick Wallingford has been awarded Apiculture New Zealand's busiest bee award for his work digitising more than 24,000 pages for the New Zealand beekeeping Digital Archive. Audio

Newmarket locals are frustrated at Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki, saying Saturday's protest left people cut off from sick family and businesses counting yet more losses. 

Meanwhile, Mr Tamaki's… Video, Audio

Dunedin's music scene is perhaps best known for its eponymous rock sound, but there are some fantastic jazz players in the Edinburgh of the South. Audio

Sun Ra and his Arkestra are best known for their avant-garde explorations into Afro-futurism, but before they went in that direction they were a tight traditional big band, with a sound somewhere… Audio

As politicians they're poles apart, but two leading mayoral candidates share one thing - a headline policy.

Free public transport has been often debated in Auckland, now councillor Efeso Collins and… Video, Audio

Dan Slevin reviews a double-feature of music films, the rediscovered SONGS FOR DRELLA featuring Lou Reed and John Cale, and a new film about Nick Cave, THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE. Audio

On At the Movies, Dan Slevin looks at at three new films and one rediscovery. He reviews the new Marvel superhero movie THOR - LOVE AND THUNDER, written and directed by Taika Waititi; Academy Award… Audio

Testing stations are seeing more and more demand for RATs and masks, now that they're free for everyone - regardless of whether they have symptoms.

There's also been increased demand for PCR tests as… Video, Audio

Figures out today are expected to show the annual inflation rate is nudging above 7 percent for the first time since 1990.

In response the Government is extending half-price fares on public transport… Audio

Industry experts suggest Auckland is on track for another building material shortage due to a shortage of quarries in the region. Currently, one in six truckloads of quarried materials that come into… Audio

The Ministry of Health says the highly-transmissible BA.5 subvariant of Omicron will become the dominant strain of the virus in New Zealand in a matter of weeks. Yesterday there were nearly… Audio

A large cleanup operation is underway on several Pacific Islands after huge ocean swells caused widespread flooding, damaging homes and hotels over the weekend. A state of emergency was declared in… Audio

Sri Lanka's parliament will gather to vote for a new president this week after Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation. The vote comes less than a week after the resignation, in the wake of a tumultuous few… Audio

U.S President Joe Biden has just wrapped up a tour of Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia - his first ever visit to the region in his capacity as President. Joining Nick Truebridge from… Audio

Covid has now killed around 1700 people in New Zealand, but much of our news reporting and commentary has focused on how we're learning to live with the virus. Why is there such a mismatch between… Audio