Officials in Queenstown are working to find the source of a cryptosporidium outbreak in the resort town, with 15 known cases in the town as of Tuesday evening.

A recent study has shown that approximately 190,000 young adults are at severe risk of unmanageable debt due to frequent use of Buy Now, Pay Later services.

Sports chat with Joe Porter

Historian Dr Jock Phillips has spent a career uncovering and documenting Aotearoa New Zealand's past, and is the author of 15 books. On this day in 1893 New Zealand women won the right to vote in elections. Jock looks back on the tough path they had to get there.

Business with Rebecca Stevenson

Southland Times editor Che Baker joins Kathryn to talk about the latest in the Gore District Council saga, which has seen the resignation of long-serving CEO Stephen Parry. Parry says he leaves with no regrets and mayor Ben Bell - with whom he had a high-profile spat - has "wished him well". Southland's Charity Hospital has reached a milestone and the latest Groundswell NZ protest tour leaves Invercargill on Friday bound for Auckland.

Kiran Dass reviews The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg published by Daunt Books

A fossil found in North Canterbury's Waipara is changing what scientists know about the evolution of birds. Leigh Love and his son found almost the entire 62-million-year-old Zealandian Tropicbird specimen in 2020 and 2021. It's the first one found in the Southern Hemisphere.. the species wasn't previously known to migrate here at all. It's not Leigh Love's first internationally significant find - he estimates he's found around a dozen new species, since his passion for palaeontology ignited in 2005.

US correspondent Ron Elving joins Kathryn to break down some of the issues in Washington right now, as the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy fights to keep his job and quell a rebellion in his party ranks. He's initiated an impeachment inquiry for President Joe Biden - something former President Donald Trump has described as "payback". The stand-off continues over federal funding past the end of the month, and President Biden's son Hunter has been indicted on gun charges. Ron Elving is a Senior Editor and Correspondent, Washington Desk for NPR news

A report out today from the senior doctors' union says New Zealanders' dependence on private healthcare is rapidly increasing. The union is in an industrial dispute with Te Whatu Ora over doctors' pay and conditions. The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists report says private hospital use has risen 38 per cent in the past decade. That means the private operators are taking on more doctors, draining the public system of staff. In addition, 140-thousand more people bought private health insurance last year. Kathryn speaks with Harriet Wild, Director of policy and research at the ASMS and Richard Whitney, President of the Private Surgical Hospitals Association.