Nights

Truck driving can be a lonely profession, spending hours alone on the road away from family and friends. This was the experience of Stephen Clemens, a truck driver from Ashburton, who had the idea to tackle the declining mental health of our truck drivers by developing an app called Ride Along.

They're an endangered species, The Kakahi General Store is one of the last of its kind remaining in New Zealand. It's been owned and run by the same family since 1937. Mark talks to 81-year-old Manu Lala who owns and runs the store.

E-scooters. Love them or hate them - they've been all over our footpaths since hitting our shores five years ago. NZTA Waka Kotahi is currently consulting on whether it should renew its e-scooter declaration in 2018, which determines whether they are allowed to be used on footpaths. Living Streets Aotearoa's Chris Teo-Sherrel tells Nights why his organisation wants e-scooters off the footpath and out of the way of pedestrians.

Sports commentator Bryan Waddle joins us again for a wrap of the latest sport news from the weekend and looking ahead over the next week or so.

It's that time of the week where we are joined by Finn Johansson with Out Lately.

Hot chocolate lovers, pay attention, the second annual 'Sweet As' hot chocolate challenge has just announced it's winners. This years winner is from cafe Espresso High, a small family run buisness on High street in Hutt Central. The winning drink is called 'Ooh, BAE Latte' a purple concoction made using ube a purple yam, common in filipino dishes. Danielle Garcia from Espresso High talks to Nights about their creation

It's set to be a big weekend for the country's Art Deco capital. The three-day Napier Winter Deco Festival kicked off today, and this year holds special meaning as the region recovers from Cyclone Gabrielle. To find out more, Nights is joined by General Manager of the Art Deco Trust, Jeremy Smith.

Some people will go to the end of the earth to get a good night sleep - but what about below the surface? That's what is on offer in north Wales, where people can stay the night 419m deep underground in an disused Victorian slate mine. To tell us more about this subterran venutre Nights is joined by Go Below underground guide and operations manager Mike Morris.

Nights podcast reviewer Lynn Freeman is back to chat to us about what she's been listening to. Tonight she is taking a look at history podcasts.

A New Zealand artist is the first ever Wellingtonian to build an art installation for the famous Burning Man festival, becoming the third-ever New Zealand artist to do so since the festival's inception in 1986. Erin Jaeger-Freeborn forms one half of the artist group Kitsune Collective - the other half is Canadian architect and artist Carly Moore...