Alexia Russell

The Property editor at the NZ Herald Anne Gibson has been doing some digging and answers your questions around the Building Code, regulations, fit-for-purpose designs, and building materials. Audio

Nurses aren't the only ones who are stressed and busy and need a pay rise. So why aren't they happy with $2000 lump sums and a 9% pay rise? Audio

Should elected government's be in for the longer haul? The outgoing chief science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman says NZ isn't very good at long-term thinking and we need longer parliamentary terms of… Audio

Now that she's arrived the focus is now on naming Jacinda Ardern's daughter and what dad Clarke Gayford's role in the family will be. Audio

Karoshi is the Japanese word for "death by overwork". The country is trying to address this phenomenon by introducing some labour laws. Meanwhile a 64 year-old man has been harshly dealt with for… Audio

Now that she's arrived the focus is now on naming Jacinda Ardern's daughter and what dad Clarke Gayford's role in the family will be. Should elected government's be in for the longer haul? The… Audio

A community in Santa Fe is the latest to be ripped apart by a shooting at a school. Teenagers are starting to think that these shootings are inevitable while the NRA blames drugs and pychological… Audio

Single-use plastic bags are now officially a thing of the past at Countdown supermarkets. Kiri Hannifin from the supermarket company explains how the change is working in practical terms and if they… Audio

Alexia Russell wants to know whatever happened to protest music and what Stephen Franks learns from eavesdropping. Audio

Classical music may just soothe the savage beast.There are stories of classical music helping to break up street fights and repelling unsavoury types from parks and train stations. Would you choose… Audio

The chair of the Omarama Residents and Ratepayers Association says the Otago town is reaching crisis point. It's a victim of its own tourism popularity with people attracted by cycle trails and… Audio

Are those in Palmerston North who voted against Maori wards "stick in the mud" people as the city's mayor Tony Bonne says? Palmerston North City councillor Aleisha Rutherford is disappointed by the… Audio

The Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has no intention of turning Waikato's Waikeria Prison into a mega-prison of 2500 beds. So how do we deal with a burgeoning prison population, while admitting that… Audio

What Alexia Russell and Stephen Franks made of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Big Day. Was the dress boring? Was Camilla's hat really a satellite dish picking up Eastenders for her? How about the… Audio

Classical music may just soothe the savage beast.There are stories of classical music helping to break up street fights and repelling unsavoury types from parks and train stations. Would you choose… Audio

What Alexia Russell and Stephen Franks made of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Big Day. Was the dress boring? Was Camilla's hat really a satellite dish picking up Eastenders for her? How about the… Audio

Is the restricted driver's licence testing a rort? Nearly half of those sitting their restricted fail and have to re-sit. Audio

Mobile shops cruising the poorer areas of Auckland and Wellington are charging wildly inflated prices for food. We ask Countdown's Kiri Hannifin why don't they get their own mobile shops into these… Audio

In a world first study AUT's Michael Fletcher has found it's mothers who are financially worse off after a relationship breaks up.Family law expert Kirsty Swadling explains why and what can be done to… Audio

The IMF has called the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill discriminatory and the Real Estate Institute agrees saying there's no data to back up claims foreign buyers are snapping up all the nation's… Audio