this is Late Edition on Radio New Zealand National, in tonight's programme doctors now able to prescribe medicinal cannibis later winter snow snares truckies on lewis pass and in Dateline Pacific - Tonga's snap election dampens hopes for more women in Parliament

the science of a storm the leaders of the smaller parties eat cake - and debate and in Dateline Pacific - A petition for a West Papuan independence vote will go to the United Nations

Rainfall breaking records; a campaign for access standard for workplaces, public infrastructure and transportation; Australia's same-sex marriage survey; and in Dateline Pacific - Tongan King's dissolution of parliament seen as part of Tonga's democratic process.

Tensions are heightened between the US and North Korea; breathing - turns out you're probably doing it wrong; and in Dateline Pacific - Tongan artists fight for a tradition under threat.

Is prefab housing the answer to the housing crisis? an inconvenient interview with the former US Vice President Al Gore and in Dateline Pacific - Guam still nervous about the prospect of war between the US and North Korea

Leaders' first election debate, the lastest fertility advice - keep doing it and the man trying to stop supervolcanoes erupting...

Controlling the ticket scalpers. The latest advice about fat in our diet and in Dateline Pacific - Tonga's interim prime minister 'Akilisi Pohiva says he's comfortable with the King's dissolution of Parliament.

A groundbreaking report on New Zealand's gender pay gap, North Korean Missiles over Japan and in Dateline Pacific - authorities move Manus Island detainees to Port Moresby.

Bug splat on our windscreen; the US change tack in Afghanistan; the triumphant black ferns head home to New Zealand; and in Dateline Pacific more on Tonga's elections after the King disolves parliament.

You're listening to Nights on RNZ National and this is Late Edition.... in tonight's programme more revelations about the use of surgical mesh in the health system - and its risks A Poetry competition for National Poetry Day and in Dateline Pacific Tonga's King dissolves parliament and calls for fresh elections.