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What does it take to go from having no alpine training or mountain climbing experience, to actually climbing Mt Everest? Holly Beckham of Ngapuhi and Ngati Rangi, is on a journey to find out. Audio

There's a special birthday happening this weekend in the Coromandel township of Thames. The Thames Music Group's Grand Piano is turning 40.  Elizabeth Jones is one of the founding members of the… Audio

Threads is the new Twitter rival in the social media landscape. According to it's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 30 million people signed up for the platform in it's first day. Stewart Sowman-Lund is a reporter… Audio

Bull auctions wrapped up this week.

Farmers around the country sought out the best genetics to add to their breeding stock.

Kim Moodie has the rural news. Audio

All Blacks coach Ian Foster is defending his selection of Damian McKenzie at first five ahead of Richie Mo'unga for Sunday's first test of the year against Argentina in Mendoza.

Bridget Tunnicliffe… Audio

A new report from Retail NZ says more than a third of retailers aren't confident they can survive the next 12 months. 

Gyles Beckford has the business news. Audio

Comedians Pinky Agnew and Irene Pink have a few laughs and take us through the week that was: The plumbing vans some drivers are mistaking for police. And a hidden safe's secret contents uncovered… Audio

A fall from grace for pole vault guru Jeremy McColl, who this week copped a 10-year ban for serious misconduct, sports commentator Dana Johannsen explains what led to the unprecedented sanction. And… Audio

Fine new releases from singer-songwriter royalty Lloyd Cole and PJ Harvey, and an unreleased gem from the Breeders' now 30 year old classic album 'Last Splash. Audio

A medical school for Waikato is back in the mix after National announces it will go ahead if they are elected. And Waikato University's long awaited new development, The Pa, is due to open on Monday… Audio

Martene McCaffrey of Unity Books Auckland reviews The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Audio

Dr Paola Magni has always been fascinated by the natural world despite being raised in an apartment in Italy in a dense urban area. As far back as she can remember she was always curious about… Audio

Vietnam has banned the new Barbie movie because the American movie is said to feature a scene with a South China Sea map showing the nine-dash line. This is used on Chinese maps to illustrating its… Audio

A team of scientists, including a Kiwi, have for the first time observed the early universe running in extreme slow motion, unlocking one of the mysteries of Einstein's expanding universe. Because of… Audio

The pandemic may no longer be the daily disruptor that it was, but its impact is still being felt every day in the classroom. A recent report from the Education Review Office said NCEA achievement… Audio

The founder of a programme that encouraged Kiwi kids to get into the great outdoors says he can't understand the rationale for pulling the plug on it. Mick Abbott set up the Kiwi Rangers programme… Audio

Listen to our weekly political panel. This week we're joined by RNZ's deputy political editor, Craig McCulloch, and Newsroom political editor Jo Moir. Audio

England dismissed Australia for 263 runs on the first day of the third test at Headingly in Leeds overnight, in what was an action-packed day of cricket.

Mitchell Marsh managed the only score of note… Audio

It has been 50 years since the HMNZS Otago and HMNZS Canterbury sailed to the Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Sailors on both vessels witnessed… Audio

Some Hawke's Bay residents whose homes were inundated by rivers of silt during Cyclone Gabrielle fear the future of their properties will depend on the size of cash-strapped councils' bank accounts.

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Hamilton residents have been warned by council officials of lithium batteries causing three fires in kerbside rubbish disposed over the last 6 months.

One of the incidents involved a battery from a… Audio

Precious letters and photographs that survived the Loafer's Lodge fire will have to be dumped, but former tenants have won a legal battle to recover some of their property.

A man has been charged… Audio

The Mosgiel Taieri's Community Board chair is horrified by suspected arson on the property of a family of former refugees from Syria.

Police are investigating after the outdoor shed was found on fire… Audio

Hotels across the country are bitterly disappointed they're yet to see the promised flood of bookings from international visitors ahead of this month's FIFA Women's World Cup.

Curiously, tour… Audio