Research shows that a cohort of almost half a million New Zealanders will go into retirement as renters. But what is flatting like in your golden years? Edna Nicholson, who is in her 70s and is flatting with a group of retirement age women at Sunrise House on the North Shore, run by Bays Community Housing Trust.

The abuse of female politicians online is being put under the microscope, with the National Party now holding an investigation into the trolling of female politicians online, including Labour Minister Megan Woods. But female politicians being targeted online with gendered abuse is not just happening to those on the left, but across the political spectrum. National's Nicola Willis and Te Paati Maori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer to discuss their own experience of online abuse.

Aucklanders are being warned by Auckland Transport that they may lose the right to park on the road outside their house under a proposed change to the parking rules. The new strategy would turn kerbside parking on some main roads into bus, freight, cycle and carpool lanes. The plan would be implemented in a staged roll-out over the next decade. Public feedback will be open until May. North Shore Ward Councillor Richard Hills speaks to Karyn about the proposals.

This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about TVNZ keeping our allies abandoned in Afghanistan on the agenda, an unusual movie censorship decision, a revealing front page exclusive with a fallen sports star and the Oscars slap heard, and seen around the world.

It is more than a hundred years in the making, but Transmission Gully is finally expected to be open to the public in the early hours of this morning. RNZ's Charlie Dreaver takes us for a spin to when Transmission Gully first got started and Karyn spoke to the first of five Transport Ministers, Steven Joyce to oversee the project.

The Police Minister has blocked the Opposition police spokesperson from meeting with the Police Commissioner. National's Mark Mitchell requested the meeting, as the party's incoming police spokesperson. Poto Williams says she allowed National's former police spokesperson Simeon Brown to meet the Police Commissioner. National's Mark Mitchell requested the meeting, as the party's incoming police spokesperson.

To explain what this means, Karyn speaks to Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen.

Spiders are looking for love and they're going inside  of our homes in pursuit of a mate. Autumn is spider mating season and it's luring the male spiders indoors in search for a female. Karyn speaks to Te Papa's spider expert, Dr Philip Sirvid.

The aged care staffing crisis is leading one agency to pay all their carers above the living wage, coming into affect this month. The aged-care sector has been experiencing a chronic workforce shortage for some time, largely due to Covid-19 border restrictions. The owner of specialist aged, dementia and palliative care agency, Miranda Smith Homecare is hoping this will entice potential workers.

Most of the early childhood education sector is operates without collective agreements, but a bill introduced to parliament today is set to change that with fair pay agreements. The agreements would form the baseline for negotiations - protecting wages and conditions. Early Childhood teacher and spokesperson for NZ Educational Institute Virginia Oakly explains the difference this will make to the sector.