

Nine To Noon
RNZ
From nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.
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Oct 27, 2025 • 26min
ACC stops payments to record numbers of long-term clients
ACC is telling long-term injured clients around the country that they are "work ready" and giving them four weeks notice that their payments will stop.

Oct 23, 2025 • 8min
The week that was
Our comedians Te Radar and Donna Brookbanks with a few laughs to end the week.

Oct 23, 2025 • 13min
Sports commentator Sam Ackerman
Sam Ackerman gives the latest on what's happening in the world of sport.

Oct 23, 2025 • 12min
Around the motu: Alisha Evans is Sun Live's Local Democracy
Tauranga City council has a plan to help a waterfront neighbourhood plagued by drug use, burnouts and speeding.

Oct 23, 2025 • 8min
Book review: He Puawai A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers
David Hill reviews He Puawai A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers by Philip Garnock-Jones, published by Auckland University Press.

Oct 23, 2025 • 26min
Thrills and heartbreak in Fiordland: The Hollows Boys
In the 1970s, as the deer recovery era took off , the Hollows brothers - Gary, Mark and Kim were drawn from the north, one by one, to Fiordland.

Oct 23, 2025 • 7min
Pacific correspondent Koroi Hawkins
RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins gives an update about what's happening around the Pacific

Oct 23, 2025 • 13min
Rotorua biofactory for new fuels, proteins
A $60 million biofactory opening in Rotorua next year will give small businesses the opportunity to create and test new bioproducts using forestry slash.

Oct 23, 2025 • 14min
Calls for nurses to do limited colonoscopies
Calls for nurse practitioners to be trained to do some colonoscopies, as the number of bowel cancer cases in under 50 year olds rises.

Oct 23, 2025 • 16min
Worksafe survey indicates violence and burnout for police and ambulance
Police and ambulance officers are facing widespread threats of violence and suffering burnout according to research released by Worksafe.


