Summer Report

Pupping season is well underway for the rare New Zealand sea lion which this year, for the first time, was listed as critically endangered. Audio

The super city may not end up saving on rates, but it has given an unexpected boost to Auckland's libraries. Audio

The Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust says the government's claim of increasing elective surgeries does not match reality. Audio

A dozen teams have already dropped out of the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race with wild weather said to be tossing vessels about like a bucking bronco. Audio

An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio

The game fishing season has just kicked off and the first of the big fish was caught earlier this week. Audio

The former Russian oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has been found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering in what he's described as a political show trial. Audio

Australia's been served a triple dose of extreme weather events. Audio

Boxing Day spending was affected by a series of aftershocks from September's earthquake. Audio

New figures suggest many people spent their Boxing Day window shopping rather than exercising the plastic. Audio

With Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's dictionary of New Zealand place names. Audio

We are joined by the deputy editor of the Otago Daily Times, Simon Cunliffe. Audio