The industry has joined the likes of plumbers and electricians to offer a 3 year apprenticeship for people to learn the nuts and bolts of the trade while on the job.

Nelson artist Sally Burton recreates the 1843 fatal confrontation between Ngāti Toa and early Nelson settlers in Wairau where 26 people died.

It's one of a number of water incidents around the country over the weekend, our reporter Sarah Robson joins us with an update.

The president of Horticulture NZ and fruit grower Julian Raine says with the hottest months to come growers are worried they will run out of water.

Maori leaders are making the call as The End of Life Choice Bill makes its way through parliament - John Boynton talks to those concerned.

We speak to New Zealanders caught up in the chaos who say no one was prepared.

Maxim Institute's Kieran Madden says the Government must stick to its rhetoric on bipartisanship as it addresses poverty in 2018.

Reporter David Luddy from DLI Radio Sport joins us to discuss the what we can look forward to from the tournament.

Te Kuiti shearer Kerri-Jo Te Huia is attempting a world shearing record in a woolshed east of Eketahuna. Jills Angus Burney joins us from the woolshed.

Tyler Nii, 27, from California, is presumed dead, after a tandem skydive went wrong and he and his instructor hit Lake Wakatipu last week, his body has still not been found.