Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to talk about more charges being laid against former radio host Alan Jones.

Mortgage brokers are unhappy with the time it is taking banks to turn around home loan applications, stressing buyers. 

It's been described as a silent pandemic: anti-microbial resistance or AMR. But could the next generation of antibiotics offer some hope? 

Sports commentator Sam Ackerman discusses the inquest into the death of Olivia Podmore after an emotional first day. 

Anapela Polata'ivao has recently returned from South Korea, having directed Tusiata Avia's The Savage Coloniser Show for the Seoul Performing Arts Festival. 

BusinessDesk editor Victoria Young talks to Kathryn about how the corporates are measuring emissions and why overall output may not be as useful a measure as emissions intensity. 

Ellen speaks with Kathryn about the Buller District Council recently pulling all but emergency advertising from the daily paper. 

Claudia Herz Jardine from Scorpio Books in Christchurch reviews Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit by Emma Neale published by Otago University Press

It took Luke Auld-Thomas about 16 pages of trawling through Google before he stumbled across an obscure piece of mapping that would lead to the discovery of a huge Maya city. 

Thousands of people are about to begin marching from Waitangi Park on Wellington's waterfront to Parliament in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill.

The US president, Joe Biden, has given Ukraine permission to use US-made ballistic missiles against Russian and North Korean forces inside Russian territory.

The Desert Road - between Waiouru and Turangi in the middle of the North Island is to close for two months at the height of summer. 

The ASB is soon to wind up its Positive Impact Kiwisaver fund - affecting about 5000 customers - citing global changes and declining customer demand.

A consultant psychiatrist says recent exam results from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists are some of the worst she's seen.

Jeanette Budgett is Programme Director of the Master of Architecture (Professional) at UNITEC Institute of Technology. She discusses frustrations with noise as Auckland Council considers an application for a helipad on a private waterfront site in Westmere.

Paua pie, beef rendang pie and lamb shank pie are some of the 38 gourmet pies celebrated in a new book by photographer and pie fan Derek Morrison. The idea for the book was conceived around a smoky campfire one summer's evening on the West Coast, as a group of mates discussed their dream coffee-table book.

Ben Thomas is a former National government press secretary, a columnist and a director of public affairs firm Capital. Sue Moroney is a former MP with the Labour Party and now chief executive of Community Law Centres Aotearoa.

Simon updates us on the main events in Tamaki Makaurau of the last week, including Burma the elephant moving from Auckland to Adelaide and Coldplay bringing 150,000 people to Eden Park.

Kiran Dass reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond published by Massey University Press.

To say Hazel Nash has had a colourful career is an understatement. Police officer and secondary school teacher are among her credentials, but outdoor education has been her greatest love. 

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

It was hacked, its share price plunged and the board quit after accusing the CEO of failing to find a way to stem financial woes. 

The cruise ship industry is being challenged after it claimed cruise tourism injected $1.37b into the New Zealand economy in the last financial year. 

The week that was with Donna Brookbanks and Irene Pink.

Sam Ackerman looks at some big selection calls for the All Blacks and the Black Caps, as well as a rare home appearance for one of NZ's top paid sporting stars and the influence of youtubers on sport goes under the spotlight.