Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills

Nick and James give a shout out to Wellington High pupils who give hope for the future of radio, sample terrific album releases from Hollie Smith, Lake South and others and tell you all about Wellington's unique Herb's Mobile Record Store. They both froth at the vinyl reissue of an iconic New Zealand Album that is surprisingly 20 years old and has links to Nicks favourite band of all time.  And ma...

Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta confirmed yesterday she's pushing on with creating four regional water entities for drinking water, wastewater and stormwater. Councils around the country largely responded with concerns and criticism but they can no longer opt out of the changes.  Wellington Morning host Nick Mills spoke to Wellington Mayor Andy Foster, Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry, Pori...

Capital Letter with Georgina Campbell: A big move on Three Waters, Te Papa's venues and the new convention centre is set to be run together and there won't be any additional lanes for cars in the 6.4 billion dollar Wellington transport plan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tuesday Business with Wellington Business Editor Hamish Rutherford: Are four-day working weeks a good idea, how have businesses reacted to the new Covid traffic light system that will eventually replace Alert Levels and the big electricity review coming out tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Wellington City Council is developing a Green Network Plan, which would see trees and green space in the city increase over the next 30 years.  It has released the plan and is discussing it at a council meeting this week.  The Council has approved $30 million for the acquisition and development of centralcity parks and to enable more street tree planting and parks in the Central City. Emma Gie...

Fran Scholey and Chris Gollins joined Jason Pine to discuss the Government's Covid announcement, Let's Get Wellington Moving and the theft of part of Wellington's bucket fountain. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Owner of four Toy World stores throughout Wellington and Manawatu, Phillip Bramley, chats to Jason Pine about expected delays and toy shortages ahead of Christmas.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Zealand and the United Kingdom have agreed the details of a free trade agreement, which officials believe will be worth $1 billion to New Zealand's GDP. Jason Walls joined Jason Pine on Wellington Mornings to tell us what this means. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Consumer Price Index has surged 2.2 per cent in the September 2021 quarter, much more than economists had expected. Excluding quarters impacted by increases to GST rates, the September quarter movement was the highest since the June 1987 quarter, which saw a 3.3 per cent rise, Stats NZ said. So how do we deal with the continued cost of living? Marcus Hull joined Nick to discuss. LISTEN ABOVE M...

This week on Capital Letter with Georgina Campbell: Where you won't be able to build in Wellington due to flood risk, Wellington's Prefab opens new coffee bar offering after staff redundancies, and Freyberg Pool is potentially earthquake-prone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part of "a sustained attack on localism" That is how our Mayor Andy Foster is describing the new housing rules announced by both Labour and National Party MPs yesterday. The new rules could mean homeowners can subdivide and build up to three homes, three storeys high as a default, without a consent fight. It is expected to mean up to 105,500 new homes built in the next five to eight years.  But We...

Tuesday Business on Wellington Mornings with NZ Herald Wellington Business Editor Hamish Rutherford: Inflation hits a 10 year high and a call for the Government to change the law to prevent criminals from salting away proceeds of crime into their KiwiSaver account and then withdrawing it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The cost of living has risen. The Consumer Price Index rose 2.2 percent in the September quarter - bringing annual inflation to 4.9 percent. Excluding quarters impacted by GST increases - the September quarter movement was the highest since the quarter to June 1987. Vegetable prices rose 19 per cent, making it the second largest upwards contributor to inflation. This was influenced by higher price...

Monday Political Panel: Kieran McAnulty Labour MP for the Wairarapa and Wellington-based National Party MP Nicola Willis on a call for a 'Freedom Day' to get vaccine numbers up, could a traffic light system replace covid-19 alert levels, delays to our climate change response, and do we need to make the Remutaka Hill Road safer after a fatal crash. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

In total 130,002 received a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Super Saturday. Now there are calls for the Government to keep that momentum up.  ACT Party leader David Seymour says Super Saturday was a "fun but desperate event" He is calling for an Australian-style 'Freedom Day' that would see New Zealand set a date to reopen, "supercharge" the vaccine roll out, and say goodbye to Covid-restrictions...

Friday Faceoff with business leader and Iron Duke Partners Director Phil O'Reilly and Wellington City Councillor Iona Pannett on Wellington Mornings. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Super Saturday event is aiming to vaccinate hundreds of Pasifika youth in "the heart of Porirua" this weekend. With free gaming, barber cuts, food and craft stalls, the 'Do it for the East' Pasifika Youth vaccination event kicks off at 9am in Cannon's Creek Cage, Porirua. It runs in conjunction with New Zealand's national 'Super Saturday' push to drive Covid-19 vaccination rates. Last week the M...

Nick and James talk heroes in the music industry who are promoting the vaccine, The VAX4LIVE project launched by music promoter Brett Eccles and we play  some of the world’s funniest Vaccine Parody songs  alongside the Worldwide premier  of parody banger “ Hit me with your vax shot” by the NZME Allstars. Also what hero slab of black wax will we find in the attic this week that’s worth a small fort...

Wellington Mornings Business Panel: Jewellery designer and Village Goldsmith owner Ian Douglas and Tommy's real estate sales director Nicki Cruickshank on an AUT survey that shows more workers are thinking about leaving their jobs, the loss of car parks due to Let's Get Wellington Moving, how businesses can get vaccination rates up, and a look ahead to the rest of the year. See omnystudio.com/list...

Beehive Buzz: Newstalk ZB Chief Political Reporter Jason Walls gives Wellington Mornings the latest political news and the inside word from Parliament. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our weekly Money Talks contributor, Marcus Hull from Mortgage Ability, has teamed up with one of our Newstalk ZB colleagues to help him budget for his dream trip - heading to the Rugby World Cup in 2023. Hear what Marcus and Hamish discovered about how making just some small changes to spending and saving can make this dream come true. LISTEN ABOVE Money Talks is brought to you by Link Business Br...

In this week's Capital Letter, our Wellington Issues reporter Georgina Campbell reacts to comments by Shelly Bay developer Ian Cassels that the occupation on the site will soon be over. Georgina also discusses her column today on where Wellington Airport sits among the region's mass rapid transit plan, and why Wellingtonians should be keeping a close eye on proposed changes to the city's district...

Developer Ian Cassels says the land occupation at Wellington's Shelly Bay will be "coming to an end reasonably soon". The $500 million development planned there, featuring 350 new homes, has been bogged down in legal challenges and disputes since its conception. Cassels told Newstalk ZB's Nick Mills the development was the "most misunderstood item in Wellington". But Mau Whenua member Catherine Lo...

A "selfless" and "courageous" Wellington teenager who spent her last week alive fundraising for brain cancer research passed away peacefully last night. 15-year-old Jemima Gazley was diagnosed with inoperable stage 4 brain cancer in February, and in the past 10 days has raised nearly $450k through a Givealittle page for research into a cure. Her father, Oliver Gazley joined Nick Mills on Wellingto...

New Zealand's largest fuel company appears to be headed into Australian ownership as Z Energy's board of directors recommended its shareholders accept a marginally improved $2 billion offer from Ampol. Structured as a scheme of the arrangement, the deal values Z Energy at around $2 billion, well down from the company's peak in 2016 when shares in Wellington-headquartered Z Energy traded at more th...