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Life expectancy across the Pacific has increased significantly since 1960 - but progress has been uneven, according to a new research.

Pacific leaders have pulled no punches in their climate messaging at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The latest news and sport from RNZ Pacific.

Three lakes around the Auckland region, including one in Takapuna are regularly stocked with fish. Quarry Lake, which is adjacent to Lake Pupuke in Takapuna, has just had a top up. First Up's fishing correspondent Ross McNaughton went to see who was out for a trout.

Kiwi WNBA star Charlisse Leger-Walker will this weekend make her Tokomanawa Queens debut alongside with Conneticut Sun teammate Hailey Van Lith. Charlisse spoke to First Up about returning home and getting ready for the game.

Howick's Hate Hone St John op shop manager Becs Higham tells First Up about the seasonal donations on offer, and the Shocktober project to train people to respond to cardiac arrest.

Correspondent Anita Purcell Sjölund has the latest from Europe.

Every country has its heroes and villains. Who are ours? What can our songs tell us about them - and ourselves? Featuring songs by Trillion, the Howard Morrison Quartet, Dudley Benson, Helen Henderson, and Sven Olsen's Brutal Canadian Love Saga. Interviews with songwriters Helen Henderson and Nigel Beckford.

As rugby bosses confront a financial crisis, the biggest changes in NZ rugby could be just around the corner.

Made up of 18 islands in the North Atlantic, the Faroes can feel like a world of their own. Lucky for us, we've got just the person to give us the lowdown. 

Earlier today we got a look at Treasury's Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update. So what is going on? Where ARE we heading?

ABC Wantok Program for 29 September 2026.

Joining Emile on the show, from the Palmerston North City Council, is Sports Grounds Team Leader, Andy May.

It's time for us to get up to speed. To tune into the zeitgeist. To chat about what's happening in pop-culture and the world wide web. 

Many of us have fond memories of Care Bears, Jem Dolls, Barbies, Sega, GI-Joes... but Tauranga's Melody Wehipeihana has taken it to the next level.

We all know that by definition, they're different. But according to our guest tonight, blurring the lines between the two could be harmful. 

The latest RNZ Pacific news.

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: remember the panic about flavour enhancer MSG in the 1960s? Waikato University food historian Chip van Dyk comes along to tell the story of where that worry came from, and what we know about it now.

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Simon Wilson and Deborah Hart. First up, the government's accounts are looking rosier than expected in the lead up to the election. ANZ senior economist Miles Workman breaks it down. Then, smart glasses have landed on our shores, and with them has come a lot of concern about privacy and consent when it comes to their recording capabili...

The Central Otago District Council may dump controversial plans to dispose of treated human effluent onto farmland. It originally wanted to discard thousands of cubic metre of dried sludge on land near the small settlement of Lauder, just over 60 kilometres from Cromwell. Lauder already gets Wanaka's waste, and angry locals and Federated Farmers don't think they should be lumped with anyone's excr...

Let's get the latest from across the Tasman now - where Australia is the latest country to raise interest rates.

News from the business sector, including a market report.

The men tasked with maintaining the All Blacks 23 year Bledisloe Cup streak have been named. Dave Rennie has selected his 34 man squad to play the Wallabies, with a couple of vterans recalled to test rugby. Sports reporty Jonty Dine spoke to Lisa Owen.

A part of measuring time known as leap seconds could soon be adandoned. At the moment there a two systems used to measure time, atomic time and solar time. To keep the two in sync, leap seconds are added. But the General Conference on Weights and Measurements votes next month on whether to call time on leap seconds. Adam Dunford from the Measurement Standards Laboratory spoke to Lisa Owen.

Nicola Willis has been given a pre-election lift, with Treasury painting a brighter picture of the government's finances in the short term. But the recovery has been largely driven by an increased tax take due to "higher and more persistent" inflation. So - what does it all mean for the election? Deputy political editor Craig McCulloch reports.