Nine To Noon

Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

James Nokise and Jeremy Elwood with a lighter take on some stories of the week.

Wanaka is to get a new hotel, the latest on the Queenstown wastewater upgrade, Fiordland beclomes a dark sky sanctuary and success at a kea breeding programme.

Paul Spain is chief executive of Gorilla Technology and explains how much of an impact the outage will have on a wide range of sectors.

Elizabeth Heritage reviews The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau (Spoor Books), and Mincemeat by Anthony Lapwood (Aporo Press).

At first blush, a career in medicine and art might seem worlds apart, but Brad Novak's been successfully mixing them for a couple of decades. 

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has quit following revelations of two affairs, including one with a rumoured Chinese spy. He co-founded the chipmaker which has become an AI powerhouse, and has close ties to US president Donald Trump. But pressure has been mounting since reports an affair with a Chinese businesswoman who US authorities suspect of spying for Beijing. It's also claimed he had another affair with a senior company executive who reported to him. Greg Torode is a special correspondent for Thomson Reuters based in Hong Kong.

VerbCrawl: a one-night-only, high-energy literary festival is set to take over the streets of inner-city Wellington on Saturday.

Data from Australia shows mental disorders are surging among young adults, and preparations are underway for a similar count of the problem here in New Zealand. 

The number of KiwiSaver hardship withdrawals, is now higher,  for first home deposits. New research finds some people who've made hardship withdrawals, may not have had they been aware of other support options.