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Would you eat lab grown fruit? That's the next frontier - with a team of New Zealand scientists looking to break new ground with regards to cellular horticulture by doing just that! Plant and Food… Audio

Imagine if you could be helping the ecosystem but knowing you've helped in the battle of the gorse all through having an award winning gin? Well you can. Susie speaks to Elemental Distillers co-owner… Audio

New research from Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington shows warming waters are putting our kelp forests in danger. Marine biologist Dr Christopher Cornwall speaks to Susie. Audio

On the pod today we continue our Tongan Language Week Celebrations, Evie shares her hidden talent of insulting people with compliments, So'omālō catches up with Atarangi, and Waimirirangi sits down… Audio

A group of indigenous New Zealanders are fighting to get an official language week for Moriori.

The Hokotehi Moriori Trust have launched a petition and written to the government asking for official… Audio

National, Labour and the Green Party last night all committed to building one thousand state houses in Auckland each year, if they're elected into Government.

The commitment was made at a debate in… Audio

Animal rights group SAFE launched a new advertising campaign focused on National's live export policy.

Monique Steele has the rural news. Audio

Robyn Broughton, one of New Zealand's most successful netball coaches, has died. Broughton coached the Southern Sting and then Southern Steel between 1998 and 2011 and won seven national titles.

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Transport software company and takeover target - ERoad - is raising $50 million to repay debt and fund growth, particularly in North America. 

Anan Zaki has the business news.

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Under pressure over law-and-order, the Labour Party is promising to add another 300 police officers to the front-line over four years.

It says that will be one of the new ways it will crackdown on… Audio

Emergency department doctors want political parties to commit to 24-hour security staff in every ED across the motu.

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine has issued a call for proper… Audio

NZTA has finished building physical safety improvements between Masterton and Carterton. There's a new wire median barrier and three roundabouts. Flynn says locals have been campaigning for the… Audio

Ralph Mcallister reviews House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng published by Canongate. Audio

Scientific research has taken Dr Chandrika Nath from pole to pole. As a glaciologist she has worked in Lapland and Antarctica, spending 100 days in the latter collecting data samples in extreme… Audio

Matt Dathan joins Kathryn Ryan from the United Kingdom, where a suspected terrorist accused of working for a hostile state has escaped from one of Britain's oldest and most notorious prisons. Daniel… Audio

A group of 33 Otago students are running the Dunedin marathon on Sunday, in support of men's mental health. The Heavy Breathers had all had some brush with mental health whether personally, or through… Audio

The Commerce Commission has released its inaugural mobile and broadband customer service rankings, focusing on how well each provider looks after customers when something goes wrong. It ranked Skinny… Audio

The official cash rate hasn't be hiked since May so why are home loans still rising? Yesterday, ASB raised its one year mortgage rate to 7.45 per cent. ASB's two-year fixed rate went up to 7.05… Audio

A Christchurch graphic designer is teaching young voters about the upcoming election with a creative twist - by turning it into a card game.

It's called 'Meet the Candidates', and pokes fun at New… Audio

A woman in the US is struggling to convince people that her name is real, because by amazing coincidence, it is Barbie Oppenheimer.

That's Barbie short for Barbara. The retired university professor… Audio

In the space of 12 months the Warriors have bounced back from their worst National Rugby League season on record, to one of their best.

Last season the club finished in 15th place with only six wins.

The first distribution centre at New Zealand's biggest inland port has opened in Waikato.

An inland port operates like a coastal port, with containers moving in and out - only they are moved on… Audio

A New Zealand company is developing an AI-assisted tool which will help pick the best people to go into space.

Dr Brian Russell, of Ambient Cognition, will lead the project which includes a new way… Audio