Jimmy Ellingham is a RNZ Checkpoint reporter based in Palmerston North.

Leah McFall reviews Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton published by Canongate.

A group of school students in the Nelson region have come up with a way to ease the financial load and make ball attire more sustainable.

Making sure children see themselves reflected in books is a driving force for author and publisher David Riley, who calls himself The Reading Warrior.

Ed White discusses how China is responding to the Iran-Israel conflict.

The Retirement Navigator - as it's called - is being described as a one-of-a-kind tool for spending in golden years.

Heavy rain, surface flooding and slips have forced more evacuations the top of the South Island, in the Tasman district.

Film and TV reviewer Perlina Lau joins Kathryn to talk about new Netflix series Sirens, starring Julianne Moore as an enigmatic billionaire who may have trapped her young employee into a manipulative web. Playing Nice (Three) sees James Norton facing a parent's nightmare of their child being swapped at birth and Long Bright River (Three) is an American crime drama miniseries based on the 2020 book of the same name starring Amanda Seyfried. Perlina Lau is co-host of RNZ's Culture 101 programme

It can be hard to avoid what's going on in the world right now, including for children. How can parents help their kids make sense of what's going on, without scaring them?

Technology correspondent Bill Bennett looks at Chorus' plan to extend the fibre network further into rural New Zealand.