Nine To Noon

Sports chat with Sam Ackerman

Created by cartoonist Murray Ball in 1976, Footrot Flats became one of the country's most successful and beloved comic strips. A new collection, Footrot Flats: Here's to the Good Times!, celebrates the strip's 50th anniversary, and Murray's son Mason Ball.

Gyles discusses the business reaction to an unclear election result, while a Financial Markets Authority report reveals what has been going on inside the financial regulator.

Jonathan reports on entrepreneur Harry Mowbray's failure to secure historic Hockin House, the research by Waikato University on a RAT test for gonorrhoea, a restriction of dogs at some of Coromandel's beaches, a new hotel planned for Cambrdige takes a step forward and the Auckland tourists found camping next to the Blue Springs.

As the warmer weather starts to settle in gardens are begining to hit full bloom. How should you be looking after roses to get the best results?

It's 20 years since a film about a genetically modified sheep with a taste for human blood became a Kiwi cult classic. Now Black Sheep has a sequel, Black Sheeps.

President Trump names a new White House chief of staff. and the lawmakers working as part of the  'lame duck' session until new Congress members start in January.

New Zealand's premier motocross championships kick off this weekend with two leading riders likely contesting the title.

The careers advisor for the thoroughbred industry encouraging young people to look outside more traditional career paths.

A new report found sports clubs and federations are struggling with competing interests, blurred accountability and internal politics impacting decision making.