Is the boom in holiday home accomodation contributing to the country's housing shortage; more on the onion dip lady; and in Dateline Pacific French Polynesia's Oscar Temaru secures support to contest the French presidential election.

Legalising dope for dogs, the winner of the Academy Award for best picture is not the winner, and in Dateline Pacific; Tonga's Prime Minister survives a no-confidence vote.

What colour does to food and the kaikoura earthquake's impact on the sea bed.

The commerce commission rejects Sky and Vodaphone's merger proposal. Earthlike planets just 40 light years away. Film Director Taika Waititi declared New Zealander of the Year. In Dateline Pacific - calls for an independent inquest into a man's death in Fijian police custody.

First the footpath, now proposals to let cyclist ride through some red lights; women in football - the men in charge respond to criticism; and in Dateline Pacific popularity polls in Fiji.

In the programme the state of emergency declared over the Port Hill fires, stays in place a parting message from one of the country's top female footballers and in dateline pacific - Fiji still struggling a year after Cyclone Winston

Who wins when schools compete for students? Should pharmac fund tampons? In Dateline Pacific; a group wanting to bring dialysis to Tonga says the government is frustrating its plans.

you're listening to nights and this is late edition in the programme tonight: a public apology from the Waikato District Health Board to continent of Zealandia and in dateline pacific Fiji's elections minister too free with his information

This is late edition and in the programme tonight: the port hill fire is contained - for now cadbury plans to closes its Dunedin factory and in Dateline Pacific samoa's softball ambitions

In the programme tonight the Port Hill fire forces a state of emergency the government orders a halt to the sealing of the pike river mine and in dateline pacific an asbestos alarm in Tonga