Local accountant makes dire predictions for the wine industry, pet owning spurs on 23 year old to by own home, the best mate beagles lost in the bush and a new music festival for Marlborough. Ian Allen is Editor for Stuff based in Marlborough

Elisabeth Easther reviews A Complete Fiction by R. L. Maizes, published by Text Publishing.

Kenneth Roth, the former long-term executive director of Human Rights Watch, has spent over 30 years using strategic international shaming to hold repressive regimes accountable across more than 100 countries-from Rwanda and Kuwait to China and Ukraine.

UK correspondent Steph Spyro on arrests after Jewish community owned ambulances  burned in London. Phone stolen from PM's aide had messages to Epstein linked Peter Mandelson, UK iPhone users face an over-18 check to use services and cryptocurrency donations to UK politicians will be banned

With Northland being lashed by yet another weather event - Kathryn speaks to India Logan-Riley, a climate justice advocate highlighting how climate change is affecting indigenous communities.

The new Government app, and other changes to the way the government will engage with citizens online.

Extensive flooding is already affecting parts of Northland as the region faces what the Met Service is describing as an "impactful multi-hazard event."

With winter looming, there are plans to treat and monitor more people in their homes rather than hospital

Science correspondent Allan Blackman looks at the success of a new drug in helping to cure mild and severe cases of sleeping sickness, an illness prevalent in Africa caused by parasites spread through the bites of tsetse flies. He'll also look at the work of Robert Goddard in laying the groundwork for spaceflight over 100 years ago, and the new 'smart underpants' helping to record the number of farts wearers do - which can provide vital information for clinicians.

The largest known earthquake in New Zealand was a magnitude 8.2 quake in Wellington and Wairarapa, that would change the shape of the capital city forever.