17-thousand health workers are due to strike from 1pm, and at midday, the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union is also taking industrial action for an hour.

Harry Ricketts reviews Giving Birth to My Father by Tusiata Avia.

Helen Goh - both  psychologist and pastry chef -  on her book  Baking and the Meaning of Life: How to find joy in 100 recipes.

Ed White has the latest on the fire in Hong Kong, India's air pollution and China's efforts to boost the number of marriages.

This weekend, one of Auckland's best-known roads - Karangahape  - will be partially closed for the Others Way music festival - the first time that's happened for a ticketed event.

Launched as a trial in 2023, Health15 supports construction workers by providing free 15-minute on-site health checks. Jamie Summers who had a stroke at 39, is one of those behind the scheme.

The Commerce Commission is proposing to let gas distributors moderately lift prices .

Film and TV reviewer Tom Augustine joins Kathryn to talk about three TV shows he thinks are great viewing in the leadup to Christmas.

In parenting today, when puberty hits and suddenly you don't recognise your own child. Clinical Psychologist Kathryn Berkett says adolescence is the most intense period of brain development since early childhood.

Tech commentator Peter Griffin joins Kathryn to talk about a revival of Google's AI ambitions, with news Meta may look at buying its AI-centric computer chips for its data centres - so where does that leave Nvidia?