It's three years since Westport's devastating floods which left a quarter of the town's homes red or yellow stickered. Ellen looks back and looks forward.

Phil Vine reviews The End and Everything Before It by Finegan Kruckemeyer published by Text Publishing

Auckland neurologist Dr Ray Bose specialises in migraine and says some of the brain changes being identified can be reversed by medications targeting a key neurotransmitter in the brain.

UK correspondent Matthew Parris talks to Kathryn about Sir Keir Starmer's moves to stop local residents blocking housebuilding as Labour's first King's Speech approaches.

When Stacey Smith and her family were able to return home after their Hawke's Bay home was hit by Cyclone Gabrielle, they found a pig had managed to swim into their house and climb to safety on a mattress.

The Republican National Convention is in full swing in Milwaukee where Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance have been formally nominated as candidates on the Republic ticket for November's election.

Cancer doctors are welcoming the funding of 13 new cancer drugs, but say with potentially 175,000 cancer patients getting them in the first year, the system for administering them won't cope.

Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn with three new studies: the first focuses on what climate change is set to do to New Zealand's weather patterns in the coming years. Researchers in the US have found a way to make it easier to separate out fibres in textile waste. Could it provide a solution to how to recycle the world's annual 92 million tons of textile waste? And a Greek study has assessed how effective 30 km/h speed limits have been in European cities. Spoiler alert: they've been effective, and even won over the public. Laurie Winkless is a physicist and science writer.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Paul Spoonley discusses where New Zealand's population is heading, as migration numbers track down, more and more Kiwis leave our shores, and fertility rates continue to decline.

Inflation has slowed to a three year low, with consumer prices rising 0.4 percent in the three months ended June.