In today's episode, the culling of chickens with bird flu at a free-range Otago farm, will begin on Wednesday, about 36,000 nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants have walked off the job on Tuesday over what they say are critical threats to patient safety, bus fares in Canterbury could increase from $2 a journey to $8 if NZTA advice is followed to the letter - but the regional council says it will do all it can to find ways to reduce the costs, and odour neutralisers at a Lower Hutt wastewater treatment plant are scheduled to be shutdown in an experiment to gauge their effectiveness.