The impact of heavy rain continues on the East Coast with locals bracing for more heavy downpours overnight, especially south of Gisborne. Karyn speaks with Civil Defence group controller, David Wilson for an update and what to expect in the morning.

The Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, David Parker, has announced cameras will be put on 300 of the 15-hundred-vessel fleet to ensure that unwanted by-catch was not thrown overboard.

India unveiled their XI yesterday with captain Virat Kohli while the Black Caps kept a lid on their line up which was only revealed tonight. Indian Kiwi writer Raj Charkraborti is watching the opening play with his father-in-law in Wellington and speaks with Karyn about the first Test.

On the 14th of June 1984, the then Prime Minister Robert Muldoon who had been in power since 1975 shocked the nation and the opposition by calling a snap election, to be held in a month's time.

In a weekly update of the latest from the news media, Colin Peacock speaks with Karyn Hay about a variety of stories from Danish footballer Christian Eriksen's near death on the pitch to the new UK channel GB News, and NZME's 2021 Lifestyle Survey.

Shannon's historic jailhouse has been restored and moved to centre of town.

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker family that's been detained on Christmas Island since 2019 is to live in community detention on the mainland after the youngest child became sick and was flown to hospital in Perth.

New Zealand, Canada and Sweden rank as the world's frothiest housing markets, based on the key indicators used in the Bloomberg Economics dashboard.

Entertainer, singer, writer and quizmaster, the inimitable Max Cryer makes a welcome return to RNZ National tonight when he joins Karyn on Words. His subject is New Zealand English: words you won't hear anywhere else in the world.

BBC journalist Audrey Tinline talks to Karyn about President Biden's first meeting with President Putin this week; Iranians go to the polls to decide who'll be the country's next president and increasing worries about rising inflation in many parts of the world.