Technology journalist Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to discuss Commerce Commission research which shows how difficult it is to get good information to help buy a phone plan.

Jonathan McKenzie, editor of the Waikato Times, with news from the region

Harry Ricketts reviews It's What He Would've Wanted by Nick Ascroft, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

UK correspondent Dan Bloom joins Kathryn to talk about how both Labour and the Tories fared in their annual conferences - what messages did both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch deliver, and are their jobs safe?

Show Me Shorts' 20th anniversary festival got underway this week - festival director Gina Dellabarca talks about the journey.

By 2048 more than half of seniors will be renting - advocates say there's not appropriate housing and councils need to step up.

It was the interest rate cut that many had called for but will yesterday's OCR cut turn the economy around?

What researchers found by studying the microbiome of the world's oldest known person - and the other researcher went to some icky places to understand the behaviour of her two cats, Mildred and Merle.

How to navigate relationships when one partner's plans or hopes for the future differ from their spouse. Do partners have to have the same dreams to be happy together?

David discusses the decision by police to cancel controversial restructuring in Canterbury , progress in local election voting and Environment Canterbury's Ngai Tahu councillors reflect on their first term. David Hill is a Local Democracy Reporter with North Canterbury News, based in Rangiora