We're coming into spring and along with the blooming trees and rising temperatures, there are also wasps! Every spring wasps rise from the winter and make their way around the country.

With the World Health Organization recording a record one-day rise in the number of new coronavirus infections - 307,930 cases reported over 24 hours - New Zealand's Cabinet has decided alert levels will continue at level 2.5 for Auckland and level 2 for the rest of the country until next week.

Audrey Tinline from the BBC's World Service gives an update on the fate of thousands of migrants after a fire destroys a huge refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

The friends and family of the missing Australians on board the Gulf Livestock 1 have launched an online campaign to pressure the Australian government into supporting the search for Will Mainprize and Luka Orda in the East China Sea.

The parents of missing Lochie Bellerby who was working on the Gulf Livestock 1 are calling on the Government to help with expanding the search in the East China Sea.

This Friday is the anniversary of the first ever successful flight across the Tasman Sea. On the 11th of September 1928 Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm made the journey in a Fokker tri-motor aircraft called the Southern Cross.

Responding to the surge in alcohol-fueled crime in Wellington, the recruitment of Maori wardens is being ramped up to increase their patrols. Karyn speaks with Suzanne Tamaki, who recently became a Maori Warden, about their service that began 160 years ago.

While New Zealand's Health Minister is warning disinformation is threatening to block the path to New Zealand returning to alert level one, Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews has toughened stage four coronavirus restrictions for metropolitan Melbourne.

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin talks to Karyn Hay about two unusual interviews in a row from young 'James Tame', a wretched headline. and a jaundiced look at a city still munted after all these years.

The Terms of Reference have been confirmed and panelists announced for the independent review of Gymnastics New Zealand following allegations of abuse.