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Forecasters are predicting more heavy rain for the upper North Island this weekend. With so much of the wet stuff about, most of us can't help but wonder: Why is it raining so much, and more importantly, when will it stop? Metservice Meteorologist Andrew James joins us and brings some answers.

Dan talks about classic films you can watch online legitimately for free.

New technology is giving us the clearest view ever of what Titanic looks like as she rests on the ocean floor. The first full-sized 3D scan of the shipwreck has been captured through the use of photogrammetry. It's hoped this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the liner as it sank 3,800 metres down into the Atlantic in 1912. Mark Leishman spoke to Parks Stephenson, director of the USS Kidd Veterans Museum and long-time Titanic analyst.

The 2023 Voyager Media Awards are announced on Saturday 27th of May and among the most hotly contested categories was best original podcast - ongoing/episodic. One of the two judges of that category is ex-RNZ presenter Lynn Freeman who's now with Forest & Bird. Of course she can't give away anything that could reveal the winner, but we can talk to Lynn about her love of podcasts and get some recommendations.

These days, about a third of new relationships begin on dating apps but it can still be a jungle out there. To help identify the personality traits that make someone more likely to be inauthentic in online dating spaces, Australian researchers have discovered signs of vulnerable narcissism are a big red flag.

Having clean and safe drinking water is something most Kiwis take for granted - but what about how it tastes? Towns around the country have been battling it out for the title of Best Tasting Tap Water. Joshua McIndoe - Chair of the Water Industry Operations Group.

Well-known music broadcaster and writer Nick Bollinger won the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction for his book, Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson's so-called "No Frills" Budget focussed on the cost of living and building better infrastructure in the face of climate change. Former government minister and United Future leader Peter Dunne reflects on today's Budget and Budgets gone by.

A Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha University of Canterbury (UC) team is investigating whether it's viable to produce maple syrup at scale within Aotearoa New Zealand.

We've all heard that social media can have negative impacts on young women's mental and physical health. But a group of Australian and New Zealand researchers who analysed fitness posts on Instagram found women are very much aware of the risks of unrealistic body standards.