Nine To Noon

UK correspondent Harry Taylor looks at Sir Keir Starmer's final PMQs as he gets ready to vacate the top job.

With the election just months away, Screen Producers NZ or SPADA , has released its Election 2026 Blueprint, setting out a roadmap for the future of New Zealand's screen industry.

There are significant regional differences in house prices, while housing affordability has improved and overall values remain high relative to incomes.

Companies run by social media influencer and self-described property coach Ashley Dean Binnie were placed into liquidation recently, owing more than $2 million.

Employment law expert Charles McGuinness joins Kathryn to discuss two recent high-profile employment cases, and looks at the reasons why an employee can be removed from workplace, the legal framework for suspensions and what employers have to consider not just before going down that route, but what happens after. Charles McGuinness is an employment lawyer based in Wellington

Melbourne beekeepers Mary Trumble and Henry Fried left their careers behind to get into the beekeeping game.

Amy discusses the continuing lack of an opening date for the Central Rail Link, new screens to protect bus drivers, proposal for fast track twin tower sky scrapers given intial approval and the on-going issues at Auckland's Heart of the City business association.

Susanna Andrew of Unity Books Wellington reviews Slow Burn: Women and Photography by Lissa Mitchell, published by Te Papa Press.

The band rose to prominence as part of the Californian Palm Desert Scene - sometimes described as desert or stoner rock.

That is a question that Auckland University musicologist Dr Patrick Savage has been working to answer.