Fletcher Building is continuing its aggressive restructuring by selling its wire mesh business at a loss and exploring the divestment of its residential arm to focus on its core manufacturing and supply operations.

Piers discusses the importance of a new maintenance depot in Masterton in improving Wairarapa's train service, the possibility of local council amalgamation.

Harry Broad reviews The Only Way Is Up:On Foot To Rome by Jennifer Andrewes, published by Parallel Lives.

Dr Pasricha says the fundamentals of going number two are often left unattended and contribute to widespread gut issues and toilet anxiety.

Amid a backdrop of severe domestic economic strain and record-low approval ratings, President Trump announced plans to guide hundreds of ships trapped by the Iran war out of the Gulf.

'Boycott the Bezos' has surfaced after Amazon's Jeff Bezos and his wife were confirmed as the main benefactors of the event.

The World Stroke Organisation last week released a warning that climate change, and the environmental factors exacerbated by it, increase the risk of having a stroke.

New research has set out just how overstretched New Zealand diaysis service is. Data from the Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry shows half of all renal service in New Zealand operate above capacity with the Auckland renal service operating at 150 per cent of usual capacity.

Kennedy discussed the walkway that connects 10 kilometres of coastal forest reserves on the northern shoreline of Auckland's Manukau Harbour. These linked reserves are said to be the largest coastal native forest remnant on the Auckland isthmus - around 50 hectares.

Otto and Vicki McGirr made the initial move but now their four daughters are involved in the business.