The RMA: the country's environment management act will be reformed. What will this mean?

New Zealand has a new commercial airline. Air Ruatoria is the dream of one man, Mahanga Maru, who takes Karyn through how his airline has become a reality.

On the eve of the Lunar New Year - Friday 12 February - we check in with our regular contributor Tom Grundy at the Hong Kong Free Press.

Karyn speaks with Infometrics senior economist, Brad Olsen, about the impacts of these LVR changes.

Our fortnightly feature Kiwi Rules where we ask a New Zealand band or artist to play it forward and choose a song they like, while we play a track from them as well. Tonight Paul Kean is Karyn's Kiwi Rules guest, and he's chosen a few local tracks including Wurld Series, Ben Woods and The Flying Scorcerers.

A team of scientists from MacQuarie University in Sydney were commissioned by the Australian Building Codes Board to carry out an evidence-based review of the use and effect on drinking water from lead in plumbing materials.

About 500 residents of two East Otago towns have packed out a public meeting tonight regarding high levels of lead in the local water supply.

On this day back in 1975, an 18-year-old Lynne Cox became the first woman to swim across Cook Strait from North to South Island.

New Zealand's Master Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers CEO Greg Wallace speaks with Karyn about testing for lead including standards for taps and pipes.

This week Colin Peacock talks to Karyn Hay about two recent stories pulled by publishers, vaccine scepticism confronted on talk radio, how close Stuff came to closing during the Covid crisis - and a profile of a prisoner that rubbed readers up the wrong way.