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Several parties have proposed creating an independent agency to analyse policies and cost election promises. But would it improve the quality of election debate, or simply create another institution for parties to fight over?

It's time for Shower Thoughts, our weekly segment where we answer unshakeable questions...

A new survey by a music licensing initiative found nearly 40 percent of people will walk out of a store because of bad music.

Its new mascot, an animated sheep called Buck, has attracted plenty of attention online - though probably not the kind they hoped for.

Tonight: more than 20,000 sets of salt and pepper shakers at the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains.

Journalist and commentator Ben Strang joins the show with the latest sports news.

The Greens want to bring back an overnight passenger train between the two cities. On paper, it sounds simple enough. But is it?

Peter Hamill first put together a field guide to Marlborough’s freshwater plants and animals more than twenty years ago. 

Extra seats being added to Parliament because a party has one more electorate seat than its share of the party vote would normally give it is nothing new. But this year, the possibility of parties and their supporters, deliberately trying to engineer an overhang to skew the proportionality of Parliament in their favour has put the issue firmly in the spotlight.

He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.

Auckland's Hannah Bennett is the founder of Thread Lightly and runs community events that are all about helping people donate, swap and take fabric and craft supplies out of the landfill. 

We've seen many a kiwi representing us on the world stage... But what about representing us on a televised singing competition in China?

Tomorrow, New Zealand's biggest model train show pulls into Christchurch's Cowles Stadium.

For years, we’ve been told personality types might come down to whether we’re more “left-brained” or “right-brained." But how much of that is actually true? 

Lawrence Patchett joins Emile Donovan to discuss his new short story collection, Have This Heart. 

Night's resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review: Verity (In Cinemas), Anemone (Netflix), and The Social Network (TVNZ+). 

Friend of the show, writer and all-round thinker Danyl McLauchlan, joins us to explore some of the best political novels of the 21st century.

This weekend, nearly 200 golden retrievers and their humans are getting together in Taupō for what promises to be a pretty spectacular sea of gold.

According to our guest, who's been writing about this for The Conversation, these changes have highlighted a new issue, that "having more potential prescribers does not necessarily mean people can get assessed or treated." 

It's time for our fortnightly chat with Nights' resident sociolinguist, associate professor Julia de Bres.

Christian Smith dials in from London with news from the other side of the world.

Every Monday after school, a handful of Westlake boys swap their blazers for sewing machines. 

Countries all around the world are dealing with a shared challenge... ageing populations and fewer babies.

Made up of 18 islands in the North Atlantic, the Faroes can feel like a world of their own. Lucky for us, we've got just the person to give us the lowdown. 

Earlier today we got a look at Treasury's Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update. So what is going on? Where ARE we heading?