Burger Wellington for Visa Wellington on a Plate with Nick Mills, Max Towle and Beth Brash

The time has come again for a burger taste test to celebrate the launch of Burger Wellington 2026 this week! Visa Wellington on a Plate (VWOAP) is championing 245 burgers hoping to take the crown for their burger award this month. Three of those burgers are on the chopping block in the studio tod…

Politics Thursday with Ayesha Verrall and Tim Costley: Planes for the Prime Minister

It's Politics Thursday, Nick Mills is joined in the studio by Labour MP Ayesha Verrall and National MP for Ōtaki Tim Costley.  Starting with the Prime Minister's use of the Defence Force plane, which has come under intense scrutiny.  Should we go even further and have a plane strictly for the Pri…

Tiaki Wai Chair Will Peet in the studio with Nick Mills

The first of Tiaki Wai's eye watering water bills have hit ratepayers in the last week. Tiaki Wai Chair Will Peet joins Nick Mills in the studio, to breakdown the cost and explain the first round of bills. Nick questions the price differences between cities and neighbouring homes. Peet details w…

Nick Mills: Less dogs and more staff at big box stores please!

EDITORIAL: You know I was listening Ryan Bridge this morning and he said something, and I said to myself Ryan, you are so right.  No wonder I listen to Ryan first thing in the morning, and he is very good first thing in the morning by the way.  He touched on something when he talked about his tr…

Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick on double standards in the House

Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick was kicked out of the House, after telling the speaker he has "double standards". She questioned the speaker's treatment of different MPs and suggests not everyone plays by the same rulebook. Nick Mills spoke to Swarbrick to get the details from the incident. She …

Music Time with James Irwin: Songs turning thirty this year

On this week's Music Time, Nick and James feel their age with a look back at songs turning 30 this year. Plus, get excited about a New Zealand legend touring a landmark album, and spin a new track from a Kiwi songwriter whose name may not ring a bell, but whose hit song certainly will. LISTEN ABO…

Deputy Mayor Ben McNulty on removing "stupid" heritage status from five Wellington sites

Five Wellington sites are up for public consultation of heritage status removal. The sites are the old Miramar oil storage tank, Courtenay Place Heritage Area, the Karori Tunnel, the Kelburn Viaduct, the former General Headquarters Building on Taranaki St. Mayor Andrew Little and Deputy Ben McNul…

Wellington Mayor Andrew Little in studio with Nick Mills: August 3

Horowhenua is unlikely to be included in amalgamation plans for the capital, according to Wellington Mayor Andrew Little. With the deadline for councils around the country to submit their voluntary merger or unitary authority plans around amalgamation less than a week away, Little told Wellington …

Wellington City Mayor Andrew Little live in the studio, one week before amalgamation deadline

Wellington City Mayor joins Nick Mills in the studio for his monthly chat, one week out from the amalgamation deadline. Mayor Little takes your calls and Nick's questions including what happens if Upper Hutt doesn't cooperate? Will they be, as Hutt City Ken Laban says, "on the menu"? He says the …

Friday Faceoff with Mayor Ken Laban and Thomas Manch

For Friday Faceoff this week, Nick Mills is joined in the studio by Hutt City Mayor Ken Laban and BusinessDesk senior reporter Thomas Manch to debate the top issues of teh week. Kicking off with Winston Peters controversial attack on Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan. The panel debate Peters behaviour, par…