Rnz: Nine To Noon

New Zealand's longest-running arts and literary journal is celebrating its milestone 250th issue.

New research suggests that gut and mouth microbiome can influence sleep. 

Tributes are flowing for the former Prime Minister Jim Bolger, who has died aged 90. 

Susan Edmunds is RNZ's Money Correspondent

Stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. That's how hunting author Peter Ryan describes his latest book Riding the Echo Down: Hunting Adventures from New Zealand and Around the World. The book is a collection of illustrated essays exploring hunting and the natural world and includes previously unpublished historical and modern images, vintage ephemera, maps, journal entries, news clippings, and artwork. It follows stories of hunters and adventurers from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and New Zealand. Peter Ryan has hunted around the world. After time spent in New Zealand and Australia, he volunteered for an aid project in southern Africa which led to an epic series of solo journeys across South America and Africa. His writing and images have appeared in hunting journals including Sporting Classics, Gray's Sporting Journal, Fieldsports and NZ Hunter. He speaks to Kathryn Ryan.

RNZ's Samantha Gee brings the latest news from the top of the South. 

Lynn Freeman reviews Feathers of Aotearoa by Niels Meyer-Westfeld, published by Potton & Burton.

The new science funding body has been announced - pooling what was previously three separate funds.

Bill Buckley is best known for his work with electromagnets, which are used in more than 90 percent of the world's silicon chips. 

Annika Smethurst is political editor at The Age.

Melissa Hannan loves cars and she's now teaching other women what's under the hood. 

The latest environment report on Freshwater, from 2023, indicated 45% of rivers - by length- were not suitable for swimming due to E. Coli.

It's crunch time for the red meat processor Alliance Group, with a vote next week on whether to accept an overseas investment deal.

Sammie Maxwell and Hannah Berry make history; Sammie the first New Zealander to win a mountain biking Cross Country World Series title, while a fourth place finish at the Ironman world championship in Hawai'i from Hannah is the best result by a New Zealand woman in 30 years. Young Kiwi driver Matt Payne wins at Bathurst and what to expect from the Silver Ferns who face Australia in the Constellation Cup on Friday, with the controversy around coach Dame Noeline Taurua unresolved. Marc Hinton is a senior sports writer at Stuff

During the years-long Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care survivors often referred to the difficulty they had in getting access information. 

US President Trump's tariff wars wiped $2 trillion off markets - as fears grow of an AI bubble. 

Jared discusses the new mayor for Queenstown Lakes and debate over agreed lake levels to ensure electricity generation at Hawea.

Chris Tse reviews Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi by Frankie McMillan, published by Canterbury University Press.

There's a growing movement of people with Parkinson's putting on the gloves, and taking boxing classes to counter the effects of the disease. 

US President Trump has now departed Egypt after the peace summit securing a transfer of hostages and prisoners between Gaza and Israel.