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Doomsday clock lurches closer to midnight
28 Jan 2026The panel of scientists behind the Doomsday Clock has announced it has ticked one-second closer to the destruction of humanity. Dr Steve Fetter is a professor of public policy at the University of… Audio
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Latest news from the United States with Simon Marks
28 Jan 2026Correspondent Simon Marks spoke to Corin Dann from Washington. Audio
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Govt announces financial support for regions hit by weather
28 Jan 2026The Prime Minister has announced financial support for flood hit regions of New Zealand. Lillian Hanly reports. Audio
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Latest international news
28 Jan 2026Catch up with the latest headlines from around the world with RNZ's Alice Wilkins. Audio
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Thames-Coromandel State of Emergency ends today
28 Jan 2026Thames-Coromandel's local State of Emergency ends today, but the clean-up is far from over. Mayor Peter Revell spoke to Corin Dann. Audio
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Eating non-regulated meat could be dangerous for Pasifika
Tongan community leader and former food safety regulator Melino Maka voices concern over non-regulated meat. Audio
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Zoi Sadowski Synott looking forward to Winter Olympics
With fewer than ten days until the Winter Olympics, producer Ross McNaughton checks in with medal prospect snowboarder Zoi Sadowski Synott Audio
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Op Shop Rummage: Hospice Queenstown
28 Jan 2026Local radio legend Boggy McDowell tells us what goodies await punters at Queenstown's Hospice Shop Audio
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Europe countries forced to diversify international relations
28 Jan 2026European Prime Ministers head to Paris, Anita Purcell-Sjölund tells us why. Audio
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Humanity’s oldest known cave art
Professor Renaud Joannes-Boyau led the team that discovered handprints more than 67,000 years old in Indonesia. Audio
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Shower Thought: Why are agapanthus everywhere?
27 Jan 2026To help us unpack Nights speaks to Murray Dawson - a botanist at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research who has spent years breeding low‑fertility and sterile versions of agapanthus to try to keep their… Audio
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Legs out, rain or shine: Just the Kiwi way?
27 Jan 2026New Zealanders are famous for many things, but apparently nothing makes us stand our more than wearing shorts in the freezing rain or snow while out in the wilderness. Audio
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Two thirds of New Zealanders have seen extreme content online
The internet has long been seen as a wild west and a new report shows it might be even worse than previously thought. Audio
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The Panel Plus
27 Jan 2026An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Mark Leishman in for Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: design historian Michael Smythe is back with another Kiwi… Audio
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The Panel with Verity Johnson and Phil O'Reilly, Part 2
27 Jan 2026In part two, the US has pulled out of the World Health organisation, Winston Peters seems to be leaning the same way, calling it a bloated entity. The Panel asks public health expert Michael Baker… Audio
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The Panel with Verity Johnson and Phil O'Reilly, Part 1
27 Jan 2026Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Verity Johnson and Phil O'Reilly. First up, The disasters that killed people and destroyed property has already generated at lest two… Audio
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Australian temperatures shooting up towards 50 degrees
27 Jan 2026Australia correspondent Nick Grimm spoke to Lisa Owen about temperatures soaring across the country, reaching close to 50 degrees in some areas, potentially trumping previous record highs. Audio
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Evening business for 27 January 2026
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Labour Party savages government retail crime advisory group
27 Jan 2026The Labour Party has savaged a government advisory group on retail crime, calling it "dysfunctional, directionless and failing". It comes after Checkpoint yesterday revealed that three of the five… Audio
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Timing rules out more potential All Blacks coaching candidates
27 Jan 2026It seems timing continues to rule out potential All Blacks coaching candidates. Coach Vern Cotter will leave the Blues at the end of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season to move to the Queensland Reds… Audio
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Oakura adjusting to new reality as main road blocked for months
27 Jan 2026In the Northland town of Oakura, locals are adjusting to a new reality - no proper road south to Whangarei for as long as the next three months. The road north reopened on Saturday but it is a long… Audio
