Four of New Zealand's largest primary healthcare organisations have joined forces to create an innovation hub to improve patient care.

Our ability to make decisions can be affected by many things - including brain injury, dementia and learning disabilities.

A blanket ban on Year 14 students competing in high school sport is at the heart of sweeping new eligibility rules being proposed by School Sport New Zealand.

Joe discusses Kiwi cyclist Ally Wollaston who finished third on stage three of the Tour de France Femmes, and the Black Caps who their Zimbabwe series.

A new book, edited by Wanaka-based film-maker Nick Stevenson, showcases the best of what New Zealand has to offer mountain-bikers.

The Housing Minister wants to decouple the economy from relying on house price rises - economists say it is possible, but will make the recovery slower.

The Greens are calling for regional passenger rail to be relaunched in Tauranga. Businesses and residents don't want paid parking on their streets and a "plague of hoons" on motorbikes are riding illegally in Tauranga parks. Tauranga based local democracy reporter Alisha Evans has all the details.

Louise Ward from Wardini Books reviews Invisible Intelligence: Why your child might not be failing by Welby Ings, published by Otago University Press.

Significant heavy rain and strong winds are hitting or forecast to hit up and down the country.

Dr Timoti Te Moke survived family abuse, state care, gangs and prison before training as a doctor in his fifties.