Torika reports on the new faces on the Auckland council, the latest on the fortnightly rubbish collections, the woman who stepped in to protect a teenager being attacked and almost half of Auckland's special votes thrown out.

Holly Walker reviews The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin, published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand.

Immigration New Zealand is dealing with a growing problem with people applying for visas, with photographs that have been filtered and airbrushed.

One in five adult New Zealanders have lived with chronic pain at various levels, with women, Maori and those living in areas of high deprivation at higher risk.

Precious gems stolen in daylight robbery at Louvre museum in Paris, Former French president Sarkozy to start five-year jail sentence, Could Putin be arrested if he enters Hungary to meet Trump? And Portuguese parliament approves ban on face veils.

An engineer says councils and Government are not making the most of wastewater heat as a cheap and readily available energy source.

A charity is calling for the loss of a baby to be included in official data, to better understand why miscarriage occurs.

Lawyers have written to the Prime Minister saying the country's reliance on cloud computing and storage will result in catastrophic harm.

Our comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink bring some levity to the end of the week.

Sports commentator Dana Johannsen