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The Metservice has taken a lashing on social media for its newly-upgraded smartphone app. Tech commentator Paul Brislen, a long-time user of the previous MetService app, reviews the new one. Audio

Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the poet-laureate of 60's pop, Bob Dylan. It's named for the main road which once stretched from the Canada-US border through Dylan's home town of… Audio

The small Bay of islands town of Paihia is about to get its first ever set of traffic lights, and some locals are not happy. Audio

A leading health IT expert says clinics and doctors' rooms as we currently know them, will become things of the past. And health facilties in the future, won't have any patients in them, but will be… Audio

Chris Kraus's 1997 book I Love Dick is a semi fictional memoir which explores her obsession with an English critic called Dick. The book has now been made into a television series starring Kevin… Audio

From not being able to differentiate between boxed and bottled wine, Bianca Bosker is now a sommelier and self-described cork dork. Audio

We discuss Bull's Lace by Jenny Pattrick. Audio

Award-winning investigative journalist, Chris Hansen, reveals some of America's most shocking murders in a new Discovery Channel programme called Killer Instinct. Audio

Professor Bruce Clarkson is giving public talks about how communities and local councils can work to bring indigenous nature back into cities – through a process called urban ecological restoration. Audio

Girls who want to wear black track suit pants, climb trees and reject everything pink used to be called tomboys. Now teachers, coaches and other parents often assume they are transgender. Audio

Do you get fewer than 7 hours sleep a night? Then Massey University needs you. It is researching why some people are short changed on the zeds. Audio

We continue our series looking at the future of our regions, the challenges they face now, and their blueprint for the future. And no region has had as many challenges to face in the last 5 months or… Audio

This week's story is Consent by Tracey Slaughter.  Audio

Why do our tummies rumble? Do vitamin supplements do anything? Is CrossFit bad for my back? These are the questions medical doctor and senior editor at the Atlantic James Hamblin gets all the time. So… Audio

Belinda Girl has lost her home and business after the November Kaikōura earthquake. She's nominated 'The Boy from New York City' by Manhattan Transfer to cheer her up. Audio

The story for this week is Fishing Boy by Bonnie Etherington. Audio

There is a perception that alternative or complementary medicines are safe. Is this the case?  Audio

People are better off smoking natural cannabis than playing Russian roulette with synthetics, the director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation says. Audio

They call him professor caveman. Bill Schindler, is teaching lessons from 200 millennia ago to millennials. He wants them to ditch the smartphones and comforts of modern life to live like Neolithic… Audio, Gallery

A sculpture by NZ-born artist Marian Fountain was unveiled at Wellington Quarry Museum in Arras, France on 9 March. It recognises the 500 New Zealand tunnellers who worked in the Arras quarries… Audio, Gallery