Nine To Noon

What happens if you combine an alien invasion, an accidental pregnancy, gallons of fluorescent slime and a heartfelt story about motherhood?

UK correspondent Natasha Clark joins Susie to talk about why Conservative leader Kami Badenoch was forced to withdraw a candidate, Prime Minister Andy Burnham's altered the government's plans for the prison early release  and self driving cabs from a company co-founded by a Kiwi.

Research by the New Zealand information technology firm, Datacom, has found that offshore data breaches are a major concern for business leaders here.

Public health experts warn about the risk of ministerial oversight on previously independent medical boards.

The future of the Census is once again in question, after the Labour Party decided not to support planned changes to the law.

How healthy is your brain-and could checking it one day become as routine as getting your blood pressure measured?

As the major political parties put forward policies to encourage the uptake of rooftop solar, how should households work out of it is a viable investment for them?

RNZ's economics correspondent Gyles Beckford.

Ian discuss the dilemma at Kapiti Coast District Council over the cost of repairing repeated vandalism, a new affordable housing project in Otaki, local colleges take part in a Girls in Hi-Vis programme to give them a chance to sample careers in infrastructure and if proposals go ahead, the Otaki-Maori Racing Club would be the only track left on the lower North Island west coast south of Palmerston North.

Stella Chrysostomou of VOLUME Books reviews three books: It Gets in Your Blood by Marty Smith,, Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan,  and Gerald Murnane's memoir Something for the Pain,