Te Radar and Irene Pink brings the laughs

Sam Ackerman looks at the weekend of sport as several competitions start to get serious.

Alexa discusses the situation in Wairoa for residents, one year on from its floods, the uproar over water rates in Central Hawke's Bay and the success of an apple bred to cope with warming climate conditions.

Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop in Auckland reviews Island calling by Francesca Segal published by Chatto & Windus

It was banned in the Philippines, now a Kiwi film festival has resisted pressure from China to remove a documentary about a disputed area of sea.

Asia correspondent Elizabeth Beattie

A new in home care business that brings together seniors, and young parents.

Fletcher Building is using hard-to-recycle plastics as fuel for its Golden Bay cement factory, in Whangarei.

Young New Zealanders are leaving in record numbers  - particularly for Australia - and job insecurity is the obvious driver.

Film and television reviewer Tamar Munch looks at zombie film 28 Years Later, new TV series Smoke (AppleTV+) starring Taron Edgerton as a fire investigator hunting a serial arsonist. And Kiwi classic Outrageous Fortune turns 20 this year.