The funding and future of the Arts Centre is one of the biggest stories to emerge from the City Council's Long Term Plan. The Mosque inquest resumes on Monday and Jean has the latest on nitrate levels in Canterbury water.

Eden Denyer from Unity Books Wellington reviews The Girl in Question by Tess Sharpe published by Hachette

A key part of Dr Stuart Brown's  professional life has been dedicated to studying human play and the vital role it has in development and wellbeing.

RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins has the latest from New Caledonia, where five people have been killed in violent clashes between indigenous Kanak pro-independence protestors and security forces. Local media are reporting people are panic buying, as shops run out of food, water and fuel. Medicines and blood supplies in hospitals are also getting low. And the French Government has banned Tiktok in New Caledonia, in a bid to limit contact between rioters.

Kiwi Fulbright scholar Bonita Bigham is researching how laws to prevent trade in endangered species are impacting indigenous art.

Federated Farmers say intense banking pressure on farmers is taking a huge emotional toll - amid calls for an inquiry into the rural banking sector.

Doctors specialising in women's health say the shortage of hormone replacement therapy patches is getting worse, and Pharmac has been too slow to act.

Film and TV correspondent Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk about Infiniti, a sci-fi mystery playing on the Rialto Channel, TVNZ's Motherhood anthology that looks at five short independent stories from Aotearoa and ThreeNow's High Country - a crime drama set in Victoria that stars New Zealand actress Sara Wiseman.

One in every three people between the ages of 18 and 34 still live at home with their parents, according to Stats NZ.  How do you navigate sharing household costs with adult children who've either returned home or never left?

Tech commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to look at revelations UK departments plan to use pupil data to check for benefit fraud and pursue parents.