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For the first time in four years the Reserve Bank has lowered its Official Cash Rate. The rate is now 5.25%, down from the 5.5% it had been at since May last year. The Reserve Bank's target range for inflation is between one and three per cent and with the rate falling to 3.3% last month, many felt the time was right for the OCR to follow suit. Major banks have reacted immediately, with Kiwibank a...

They have been used controversially in cities like London, now Aotearoa is set to get a taste of congestion charges. The idea is that they will make people rethink how and when they use some of our most clogged up roads but will they work? National Blood Donor Week is on at the moment. This year the focus is on bolstering our dwindling plasma stocks. Can you help? Further info at nzblood.co.nz We...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from the Olympics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stark new figures on the skyrocketing cost of feeding a family are out - and they make particularly grim reading for parents. Worse still, the price of healthier foods is rising faster than other items. We assess the impact of poor nutrition on vulnerable kids. Plus, Paddy Gower on perhaps his most challenging investigation yet - and what it means for New Zealand. And, as the Olympics come to a cl...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings the Olympics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from the Olympics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from day thirteen of the Olympics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Government has outlined its plans for new council-owned water services to replace the controversial Three Waters scheme. We catch up with double-Olympic gold medal winning Black Fern Tyla King. She is retiring from international sevens, what's next? Could an increase in severe weather events make it too expensive to insure our homes? And Imogen Wells hits us with some fun Olympic facts. Did so...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from day eleven of the Olympics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The unemployment figures for the June quarter are in and show a rise to 4.6%, up from 4.4% in the last quarter and 3.6% at the same time last year. This is broadly in line with economists' and the Reserve Bank's expectations, so what does it mean for interest rates? Kamala Harris has picked a running mate with 'Midwestern Dad' energy. What do we know about Tim Walz? We take a look at the River Sei...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from day 11 of the Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A backtrack from Health NZ means some Kiwis will get access to the cancer drug Keytruda before Pharmac begins funding it later this year. Richard Sullivan is the Chief Clinical Officer at Health NZ and joins us to explain their decision. Global sharemarkets have been all over the place recently, with concerns around the state of the US economy seeing some big falls, particularly in the tech sector...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from day ten of the Olympics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Misinformation around the identity of the attacker behind the fatal stabbings of three children at a dance class in Southport last week has lead to the worst riots the UK has seen in more than a decade. What has been fuelling the unrest and what could the consequences be? Gore toddler Lachie Jones was found dead in January 2019. An inquest into the death resumes today. Imogen Wells catches up with...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from day nine of the Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Organisers promised that the Paris Olympic Games would be the greenest in modern history, saying they would halve the carbon footprints of the London and Rio editions. Can sporting events of this size be environmentally sustainable? If not, what might an alternative look like? Sticking with the Olympics, the women's boxing has been generating plenty of discussion. Algerian fighter Imane Khelif has...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from the Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Easter Monday 2021, police were called to the home of a successful professional couple in the affluent Auckland suburb of Remuera. They found the body of Pauline Hanna. In his emergency call, her husband, Philip Polkinghorne, said she killed herself. Sixteen months later he was charged with her murder. As this podcast is released, he's currently on trial at the High Court in Auckland. Stuff's g...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from the Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key action from day six of the Olympics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iran has vowed to avenge the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh who died in an overnight air strike in Tehran. Israel hasn’t commented publicly on the strike but it has previously vowed to eliminate the group’s leaders. What does this mean for the already volatile situation in the Middle East? Stuff's Catrin Owen has been covering the murder trial of eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from day five at the Olympics including another medal for New Zealand Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you are looking for a loan, be it for a home or a credit card, there should be less hoops to jump through after the government has scrapped what it describes as "overly-prescriptive" regulations from the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act. A more streamlined process to borrowing money may sound pretty good, but not everyone is convinced. 12-year-old Kiwi Nell Fisher is not only a great a...

Direct from France, Newsable's very own Imogen Wells brings you up to date with all the key overnight happenings from the Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Christchurch mum Yanfei Bao just over a year ago believe they've found her remains in a shallow grave. Why did it take so long? Imogen's adventures in Paris continue as she shares a pastry with Kiwi medal hope Dylan Schmidt and discovers what daily life is really like for an Olympics athlete. Talking of pastry, we've got the big winners in the national...