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Agri-analysts expect tighter supplies and higher prices for cattle and beef as countries focus on rebuilding their herds, meanwhile a major kiwifruit company is investing in Gisborne and major dairy company Danone recently purchased local dairy brand The Collective. Rural News on Morning Report with Gianina Schwanecke.

An early morning sports news update.

Early findings from the New Zealand Drug Trends survey show 31 percent of respondents have used cocaine in the last six months. Chris Wilkins is Professor of Policy and Health and leader of the drug research team at SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, College of Health, Massey University. Wilkins spoke to John Campbell.

Catch up with the latest headlines from around the world with RNZ's Alice Wilkins.

National has plunged below 26 percent in the latest RNZ Reid Research poll, while the Greens are soaring, just over four weeks out from the election. Political reporter Lauren Crimp gathered the parties' reaction.

The latest news in Cook Islands Maori (Te Reo Maori Kuki Airani) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

Samoa's prime minister issues an apology; Pre-COP31 summit gets underway in Fiji; A new Pacific website is fighting back against misinformation.

Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'aiuli) Leuatea Schmidt has apologised for shouting "Heil Hitler" and using Nazi salute at a party 19 years ago.

Greenpeace is calling on Australia to show greater climate leadership at this year's pre-COP31 summit hosted in Fiji and Tuvalu.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

The man behind the Pacific's first independent fact-checking website says the unchecked spread of mis-information and disinformation in the region is why he started it.

ACT leader David Seymour explains the party's pledge to remove tax on KiwiSaver earnings.

Local Democracy Reporter Bronson Perich brings First Up the latest from the region.

Correspondent Ellie Jay has the latest from the United Kingdom.

On today's First Up pod: news out of the United Kingdom, the latest from South Waikato and Taupo, ACT leader David Seymour explains the party's pledge to remove tax on Kiwisaver earnings, and we head to Antarctica for an update on the Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project.

The housing market is all over the place - neither buyers nor sellers seem to be getting anywhere fast.

A wrap of the day's big stories

Tonight: more than 20,000 sets of salt and pepper shakers at the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains.

Journalist and commentator Ben Strang joins the show with the latest sports news.

The Greens want to bring back an overnight passenger train between the two cities. On paper, it sounds simple enough. But is it?

Peter Hamill first put together a field guide to Marlborough’s freshwater plants and animals more than twenty years ago. 

Extra seats being added to Parliament because a party has one more electorate seat than its share of the party vote would normally give it is nothing new. But this year, the possibility of parties and their supporters, deliberately trying to engineer an overhang to skew the proportionality of Parliament in their favour has put the issue firmly in the spotlight.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: the mandatory requirement to wear a wig, bands and bar jacket in the courts of the Kingdom of Tonga is being questioned. Lawyer Tutone Maka raised the motion at the Tonga Law Society's AGM last week to remove the wig, bands and bar jacket as mandatory at court appearances in Tonga....

First up, we continue with our Election Policy Watch. This time we look at labour's promise to create a right to repair for cars, ensuring independent mechanics can have access to the manuals, software and tools needed to fix modern cars. Then, it's the Greens' turn. They've promised to make public transport free for children, students, apprentices, Community Service Card holders and Total Mobilit...