Tough times for Auckland retailers with a new report finding a 13 per cent vacancy rate the national record.

RNZ's money correspondent Susan Edmunds joins Kathryn to look at the discussion this week of what the nation wants out of house prices following new data that shows they're stuck for the most part, despite lower interest rates. And a new report from Consumer NZ shows a big increase in house price insurance - is there a risk some people simply won't be able to insure their homes? Susan Edmunds is RNZ's money correspondent

The international exhibition that brought double the New Zealand population to Dunedin in 1925 to visit the South Seas Fair. Historian Jock Phillips talks to Kathryn about how the event came about and what was featured, including a push to buy New Zealand products like Gregg's coffee and Hudson's biscuits.

The final cost of the Sarjeant Gallery redevelopment, the candidates lining up for council and a final decision over the fate of the Whangnaui East pool

Stella Chrysostomou from VOLUME Books reviews Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press.

Award winning Australian author and environmentalist, Natalie Kryiacou on nine levers of change to help save the world.

The expulsion of Iran's ambassador and the hunt in Australia  for a gunman and self-proclaimed 'sovereign citizen' after two police officers were shot dead.

The world's largest collection of New Zealand and Southern Ocean fishes will soon have a new home.

The departing Aged Care Commissioner says the government does not have a proper plan for the health of our ageing population.

New research out today finds half a million people each year are not getting treatment for hearing conditions.