Tess discusses updates on the Queenstown Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant, Dunedin's mayor has expressed frustration with the slow progress of the hospital upgrade, and a new bylaw for freedom campers in Queenstown Lakes is being pursued.

Sally Wenley reviews Invisible Boys TV Tie-in edition by Holden Sheppard published by Fremantle Press

Sarah Anderson is a writer, painter and the founder of the Travel Bookshop in London which featured in the film Notting Hill.

The Department of Homeland Security is cutting back its civil rights and oversight offices after it revoked parole status from half a million people.

Auckland Councillors are due to vote on two competing projects to be Auckland's main stadium today - but advice from Council staff is that neither is a viable option without significant public funding.

A Hawke's Bay biotech company is using cutting edge technology to turn waste from the dairy industry into high value protein.

A retired accountant says Primary Health Organisations have become overly corporatised and top-heavy, taking too much of the health spend compared to GP's.

Kennedy discusses a new home-grown climate-change musical that debuts in Auckland this coming Friday.

Pepler's makes a range of dressings, chutneys and sauces from its base in Te Kauwhata in northern Waikato.

Political commentators Lianne Dalziel and Liam Hehir discuss the Prime Minister's 'full court press' during the India trade trip, Winston Peter's Washington DC trip, and continued public service cuts.