RNZ: Nine To Noon

Film and television reviewer James Croot with what he's been watching.

Whether it is a close family member, pet or someone they don't personally know, like a famous person who has died, children experience death and parents will be asked about it. 

Tech correspondent Tony Grasso details Tuesday's One NZ outage and how it was handled.

Diane McCarthy is an Eastern Bay of Plenty Local Democracy Reporter with the Whakatane Beacon.

Roger Christensen of Little Unity Books Auckland reviews The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman published by Walker Books.

Brain scientists have made a breakthrough that could help diagnose Parkinson's disease and Multiple System Atrophy much earlier. 

New Zealand is pausing its funding to the Cook Islands in the wake of a controversial deal signed between China and the Cook Islands.

After surviving a traumatic brain injury as a teenager, Anna Baigent and her mum Maria turned to horses as a source of healing. 

Matt Dathan is Home Affairs Editor at The Times.

The founder of one of the country's longest-running alternative education organisations, is urging a re-think on how the sector is viewed.

Farmers' representatives are worried that plans to speed up access to new agri-chemicals won't be fast enough to compete on the world stage. 

New Zealand is pausing its funding to the Cook Islands in the wake of a controversial deal signed between China and the Cook Islands. 

Conflict can happen anywhere - from the playground to the office - or an actual battlefield. How we react to high-stress situations is largely hardwired into us as humans. But can we learn how to manage it better? 

Hamilton Annual Economic Report for 2024 has just been released, while Waipa is sick of feral cats and wants them added to DOC's predator free hit list.

Sally Battson from The Next Chapter in Wanaka reviews The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa published by Penguin Random House.

Over 25 years, a volunteer group in East Auckland has quietly achieved something remarkable - a transformation of the Mangemangeroa Reserve from farmland into thriving native bush.

The Census is to be scrapped, in the biggest change to how New Zealand counts its population in more than 70 years. 

Luke Hura has built a successful career in the film industry doing something that people generally advise against. working with animals. 

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton details the shooting in Tasmania of a police officer who'd gone to serve a warrant to repossess a house in the state's rural north-west.

Electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world - but it's also proving to be a boon for cyber-criminals. 

Food prices have risen at their highest rate in 18 months, and inflation is heading towards the top of the Reserve Bank's 3 per cent target. 

The government will take back power from local councils if their decisions are going to negatively impact economic growth, development or employment. 

Glen Lamer has sports news.

Historian Jock Phillips is in the Wellington studio.

Victoria Young is BusinessDesk editor.

Around the motu: Jesse Archer in Taupo.

Last year, New Zealanders' perceptions of China were increasingly positive, but research released today indicates they have again turned negative. 

Melanie O'Loughlin of Lamplight Books in Auckland reviews Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte published by Fourth Estate.

Money makes the world go round, but what happens when you have none? Te Kahukura Boynton - founder of Māori Millionaire.

USA correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben on the  G7 summit in Canada and the arrest of a man over the shooting of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband,. .

The determination of aspiring female rugby players in Taranaki is at the heart of a new documentary by Lisa Burd for this year's Doc Edge festival.

The distribution, manufacture, sale and supply of disposable vapes are  banned from today. 

Growth in apartments and adjoined terraced housing - does body corporate legislation need updating?

The government has this morning released its second Suicide Prevention Action Plan.

This morning is devoted to the endangered kokako, which have maintained a population in Hunua Ranges Regional Park, on the eastern edge of Auckland. 

Owners and operators of the country's only commercial cranberry farm, artist Kate Buckley and farmer Kevin MacGregor share how a native North American berry came to be thriving on New Zealand's west coast.

Neale Jones and Tim Hurdle discuss the week in politics. 

Tim Brown is a RNZ Christchurch reporter.

Dean Bedford reviews Without Fear or Favour: A Life in Law by Sir Kenneth Keith published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

A new film about a Māori elder and a troubled young woman who bond during a Matariki road trip - KOKA - is about to hit cinemas. 

EU voices fears about "radioactive release" in Israel-Iran conflict, coordinated protests in southern EU states begin against 'overtourism'.

A large gym chain, Les Mills, is reminding it's clients in its regular newsletter about rules over using phones in the gym.