Rnz: Nine To Noon

Science commentator Dr Jen Martin joins Kathryn with four of the top discoveries of the year.

2025 marked another year of big developments in space exploration, including NASA's Project Artemis that will take humans farther from Earth than anyone's been for over 50 years. 

Jesse Archer from LakeFM in Taupo

Gina Rogers reviews What Have I Done? My Autobiography by Ben Elton.

A new charter school in Upper Hutt focused on high-performance sports is set to open next year. 

After 30 years of spectacular designs for the World of Wearable Arts, one of New Zealand's most prolific illustrators, creators, designers and writers, Fifi Colston, is taking a break. 

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn with the latest on the Bondi shootings, including how public debate has now shifted to political recriminations, now the government has announced it would tighten gun laws. 

Giving a donation is not a simple matter and finding people who meet the strict eligibility criteria can prove tricky. 

Industrial action in October involved of more than 100,000 primary and secondary teachers, primary principals, teacher aides, nurses, doctors, ACC workers, and other healthcare workers.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis is pointing to a slower economy, lower tax take and higher debt costs, but maintains she can achieve surplus six months earlier than the Treasury forecast. 

Sports catch up with Sam Ackerman.

Dane Watson and Winston Brinsley are the Auckland based entrepreneurs behind the streetwear company Goodlids. 

Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson looks back at the year for the NZX's small cap index. 

Kirsty Pickett co owner of the Southland App based in Te Anau, covering Southland and Fiordland.

Ralph McAllister reviews The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three by Philip Pullman, published by Penguin Books NZ.

Otago business Harraways and Sons is investing $11m in its oat mill, the only operational one in the country.

Iwi and business leader Helmut Modlik talks with Kathryn about the bright future for the indigenous economy.  

US correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben is White House correspondent for NPR.

What's driving the year-on-year successes of Kiwi game developers?

Sweeping changes have been suggested for school curriculums over the last year, along with an overhaul of the NCEA system. RNZ's education correspondent, John Gerritsen, unpacks the details.