A cracker from the forthcoming Perfume Genius album featuring Aldous Harding, the sassy pop of Sabrina Carpenter, and paying respect to two the best who passed this week.

The Southern Charity Hospital is open and an important volunteer has stepped in to help, there is tension between Invercargill City Council staff and Invercargill's Mayor, and the New Zealand Track Cycling Championships is experiencing some star power. Logan Savory is the Southland Tribune editor, based in Invercargill.

Lynn Freeman reviews A Bird in the Bush: From Fledgling to Flight by Marnie Anstis published by Boots Books.

Australian adventurer, Lucy Barnard, seeking to be the first woman to cross the Americas from top to bottom.

RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins discusses ongoing political turmoil in the region

Creatives are set to take over a section of carparks in Wellington's Cuba Street tomorrow.

An ex-banker from Hawke's Bay has come up with a simple way of formalising loans between friends and family.

Half a million disabled New Zealanders aren't getting what they need to live a good life. The findings come from the first comprehensive set of disability statistics collected in more than a decade.

Film and television correspondent Perlina Lau

How much after school activities, how much is too much? Maggie Dent is the host of the ABC podcast Parental