Dr Sharon Hoover is an expert in helping teachers, school counsellors and principals support students who are struggling with mental health issues. She speaks to Jim about how to help young people deal with stress.

Taranaki is wrestling with it's economic future after the government banned new offshore oil exploration. Robin Martin asks if alternative fuels could be the region's saviour.

Kiwi expat Natasha Lockey came across her current home, Rossland, which is in the Kootenay Rockies Region in British Columbia, after reading about the place in snowboard magazines in the 1990s. She joins the show to discuss life in her formerly secret paradise.

The latest from the House

Parliament's rainbow select committee room has been redecorated ten years after it was first opened.

Dr Margherita Malanchini and Dr Kaili Rimfeld have released their research which concludes that teacher assessments are equally as reliable as standardised exams at predicting educational success. They spoke to Jim about their work.

Research New Zealand polled a nationally representative sample of New Zealanders to find out where they stand on priority areas for the New Zealand health system. Research NZ Partner Emanuel Kalafatelis joins the show to discuss the survey findings with Jim.

The House is sitting under urgency to consider bills related to the Government's Budget 2019 announcement this week. Here's how urgency works.

Wherefore art thou budget? Or possibly what's it all for anyway, and is it really new?

Expert says vaccinating pregnant mothers will save lives; and that immunisation rates will rise if getting a jab is easier.