Listed restaurateurs Savor Group are ditching lamb cutlets for the first time in 14 years due to rising costs. Rebecca also discusses how Auckland med-tech firm Aroa could be set to benefit from United States' Medicare changes. And the fintech Xero founder, Rod Drury has taken a 20 per cent stake in startup Volley Payments .

Kelly discusses the re-opening of a popular Rotorua restaurant, a murder charge following a car crash, and Rotorua teen offered a job after video of him helping elderly shoppers go viral.

David Hill reviews Good Things by Samin Nosrat, published by Penguin Random House.

Scientists are hoping a recent 50-hectare controlled burn of wilding conifer pines in Central Otago will help develop new ways to rid land of the pest.

Vanessa Croft's compelling debut novel draws inspiration from a little-known Kiwi colonial adventuress.

US President Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce a Gaza peace plan.

New research has found the vast majority of doctors who train here, stay here.

The government is backing Southland's the space industry - and a company set up indirectly by local councils.

The Government's makes sweeping changes to earthquake strengthening standards. Minister Chris Penk goes into the detail.

Bill looks at Simplicity Living's model and says it can produce apartment buildings cheaper, faster and better. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.