The Government has just announced a new $70 million tourism package they expect will supercharge the tourism and events sectors. 

The funding includes $40 million to secure large-scale international events from next year, and a regional tourism boost campaign. 

The boost in funding will help New Zealand complete with Australia for major events. 

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Labour's education spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime has met with education minister Erica Stanford to discuss the Government's plan to scrap NCEA. 

It comes after the spokesperson refused to meet with the minister while the reform was in its planning stages. 

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Students are dropping out of high school at the highest rate since 2007. 

It's become fairly accepted in recent years that you don't need a diploma or a degree to be successful in life, but many parents will still be concerned if their child comes to them wanting to leave early. 

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For many of us, the roof is one of those things that completely slips the mind until it's raining inside. 

RoofBuddy founder and director James Logan joins to discuss roof maintenance, and when it's time for a new one. 

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This week on The Panel, Tim Beveridge is joined by barrister Brigitte Morten, and journalist Wilhelmina Shrimpton, to discuss the biggest stories from the week that was. 

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There are two different types of employees - one who stays low profile, gets what they need to get done, done, and goes home. 

Then there's the other, who complains about anything they feel inconveniences them.

Is it true that the squeaky wheel get the grease? Or is this a great way to get yourself ruled out when it comes to opportunities and promotions? 

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We know we should be doing as much exercise as possible, but for most of us it's just not possibleto run for an hour a day and find time for weightlifting. 

For those of us sitting at a desk for most of the day, and another good portion of it sitting in traffic, what is the bare minimum amount of movement we should be doing? 

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New Zealand First's annual conference has just drawn to a close, and leader Winston Peters made a speech to his audience of near 1000. 

He announced New Zealand First will campaign on making KiwiSaver compulsory, and introduced 10% contributions, which would be compensated by tax cuts. 

All this on top of a potentila new candidate for next year's election - Stuart Nash. 

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Former Labour minister Stuart Nash has put his hat in the ring to be a candidate to become a New Zealand First MP at the party's AGM this weekend. 

Nash was sacked from Cabinet in 2023 after disclosing confidentiall information from a Cabinet meeting to two businessmen. 

Now, Winston Peters says he would be a 'seamless' addition. 

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Around 96.8% of children in New Zealand attend some sort of Early Childhood Education at some point before entering school. 

Some begin right from a few months old, while some are only enrolled at 2 or 3 for kindergarten. 

But why is ECE so important? 

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