The Social Investment Agency has revealed the first organisations to be given backing from its $190 million fund.

Stats NZ admits there is work to be done to ensure data collected under the modernised census plan is robust.

Science commentator Jen Martin joins Kathryn with three fascinating studies.

One hundred years after it was first published, the substantial history of Tuhoe, "Children of the Mist" by ethnologist Elsdon Best, is back in bookshops.

Harry Broad reviews Over Alps and Plains in Cobb's Name by Peter Savage, published by Peter Savage.

Waikato Times editor Jonathan Mckenzie with news from the region.

The latest statistics are out on what books were most borrowed from libraries this year.

A variety of a well-known mushroom touted as having brain boosting qualities is being cultivated at scale in New Zealand for the first time.

New Zealand's operating theatres are severely under pressure, but a big blue articulated truck has been travelling up and down the country helping out with day surgery for 23 years.

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton on the PM's wedding, a national plan on artificial intelligence has been released, but it won't include "mandatory guardrails" like risk-management systems. And a 26-year-old Swiss man is being praised for his heroism in trying to save his girlfriend from an attack by a bullshark.