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This morning's top stories and other headlines

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

One factor more than any other has stopped Balclutha being a 'zombie town': immigration. In the 30 years following Rogernomics, the town lost thousands of people (mostly the young), but in the last 10 years something has changed. New people have arrived - from Auckland but also from much further afield. The second most common language in Balclutha is now Samoan. The influx of new people and cultur...

Can you guess the sound in our game What's That Sound? We've got jokes from kids Ted, Quinn, and Emma, and a special guest pops in for a chat! Plus, Cool to Kōrero and Fun Facts.

A wrap of the day's big stories

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

Sarah Ell was a sixth former camping on the shores of Lake Tarawera when she first imagined writing about the eruption. That was 1986, a century after the mountain blew. Forty years on, her story has a cast of visitors gathered at the hotel with lies to tell and plans to carry out. The reader knows what's coming. They don't. At the heart of A Sky Full of Fire is Mohi, a young Tuhourangi boy. Sarah...

Kirsten Vangsness was halfway through an ab workout when a distinguished voice across the gym announced that it worshipped at her throne. It was Tim Curry. She went straight to work and burst in on her bosses to tell them he wanted to be on the show. Kirsten has played Penelope Garcia on Criminal Minds since 2005, a part she only auditioned for to help a friend in casting look good. She was workin...

Michelle Langstone was in tears by the end of the new Oasis documentary. Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger opens with hidden cameras waiting for Liam and Noel Gallagher to see each other for the first time in 15 years. What follows is less about the feud and more about the fans, and two brothers patching things up on stage. She also recommends Norm: The Tale of Norm MacDonald, Judd Apatow's melancho...

It's Labour Weekend, which in Raglan means the studio doors are open. The Raglan Arts Weekend is in its 16th year, with more than 70 artists inviting thousands of visitors in to see where the work gets made. Co-ordinator Nicky Brzeska joins Perlina to talk about what's on show, from ceramics to taxidermy, and how the weekend makes room for emerging artists alongside the familiar names.

There's a lot more singing in season two of Happiness, and Luke Di Somma is the one writing it. This time the show within the show is a Sherlock Holmes musical. Luke helps run the writers room, so the songs are planned from the ground up rather than dropped in later. TV is tough on a songwriter, though. A stage number can run six minutes. On screen, two minutes is a long song, and a close-up can s...

Not many people decide to sit down and watch a 40-minute drama on their phone. Plenty of people will watch 40 one-minute episodes, though, one easy decision at a time. That's the hook behind micro-dramas, the vertical, cliffhanger-loaded soaps turning up in social media feeds, more and more of them made with AI. University of Auckland business lecturer Johnny Chan has been studying why they're so...

Jonathan Smart knew artist Mark Braunias since 1988, the year Jonathan opened his gallery and Mark graduated from Ilam with a remarkable class of artists. Almost two year's after Mark's death, Gliff, the current show at Jonathan Smart Gallery, offers a glance across a career that began with Donald Duck in conversation with the Virgin Mary and ended in bright fluoro colour. Jonathan remembers Mark...

The top stories and other headlines at midday

In the 1990s, Suzanne Paul earned the affectionate nickname "the infomercial queen" after rising to fame promoting Natural Glow makeup on television. 

In her memoir Beyond the Gates of Gloriavale, Rosanna Overcomer details the difficulties of leaving the religious sect and the challenges of adjusting to the freedoms that came with starting over.

Bonnie Harrison is here guiding us through the latest weird and useful headlines from the world of science including a song proven to stop children crying, the ideal length of time for hand washing, and who is most likely to be given money after a lotto win.

Former broadcaster Graham Bolton explains why he initially baulked at using a white cane, and how eventually it became a tool that re-opened his world.

In celebration of 50 years of heavy metal, Iron Maiden are heading back to New Zealand as part of their Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026. 

As chatbots become more human-like, a growing debate is emerging over whether artificial intelligence deserves moral consideration.

Law and order has hit the election agenda big-time after controversies about candidates and gangs. Also: political parties' media policies, and a tech expert from the 'NZ of the North' on political policies to ban social media for teens.

Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff believes creating "tiny experiments" give us opportunities to learn.