Sonja de Friez reviews Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand Edited by Anne Kennedy published by Auckland University Press

Peeping Tom is an award-winning Belgian dance theatre company which is bringing its production Diptych to the Auckland Arts Festival this weekend.

The economy slipped into a recession at the end of last year. Stats NZ says gross domestic product fell 0.1 percent in the three months ended December The economy shrank 0.3 percent in the previous quarter fulfilling the technical definition of a recession RNZ Business Editor Gyles Beckford is with us

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to talk about shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves' speech that was critical of the economic legacy of the previous Labour government and...a little boring.

Almost half New Zealand adults don't have a will, despite having dependents and assets.

The Commerce Commission says the banking sector needs more competition.

As our government brings in restrictions on vapes, in Australia the vape crackdown has already seen a new product, nicotine pouches selling online and in shops.

Science commentator Allan Blackman looks at how the mealybug ladybird uses carminic acid to scare off an attack from ants, and the new research that's found it "steals" it from an invasive bug that came to Spain via the Americas. How did it adopt this defence? A new study backs up the theory that handwriting is beneficial for absorbing information and why is adapting to daylight savings so hard? Allan Blackman is a Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Auckland University of Technology.

Getting into a heated exchange with your partner over text is never a recipe for relationship success, says therapist Jo Robertson. "Nobody feels cared for over text message in a conflict. Nobody feels really heard or really listened to. And that's our ultimate goal in every single conflict," she tells Kathryn Ryan.

The final year of former Christchurch City Council Chief Executive Dawn Baxendale's turbulent reign has come at a cost.