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Correspondent Katherine Firkin has the latest from New York.

On today's First Up pod: news from the United States, Monday's fresh produce outlook, finding out who is across the new road rules, encouraging Maori in Australia to vote, and counting the cost of school holidays as parents juggle work and parenting.

Tamariki talk about what's in space, young Zoe reviews the book Magic Mistakes, and there's a trio of kid comedians with their best jokes.

Red zone soil

Shamubeel is back in Balclutha, trying to understand why some of the financial statistics seem to be tracking in the right direction, finally. And what he discovers is that 10 years ago, some locals - determined their town wasn't going to die - created a unique model to build new houses. But more than that, they set about trying to make sure their towns got 'younger.'

The EU is looking at a landmark complaint over New Zealand's alleged climate deal violations.

A wrap of the day's big stories

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

Karl Puschmann joins Culture 101 with his picks for October. He recommends Happiness Season Two on Three and ThreeNow, the local musical comedy about an ex-Broadway director forced to return to Tauranga, which won him over completely in its first season and hasn't dropped the ball in its second. He's enthusiastic about Kill Jackie on Neon, a stylised Catherine Zeta-Jones action thriller with comic...

Magenta Creative Space is Nelson's only fully resourced creative studio, giving people the chance to try their hand at a range of artforms. Strategic director Rose McGrannagan joins Culture 101 to talk about what the space offers, why it's been struggling to stay open, and the fundraising effort underway to carry it through the year.

Rua is the debut novel of Candice Tutauha, who completed a Master of Creative Writing at the University of Auckland and has spent close to a decade developing the story. It follows a young Maori woman in a tight-knit small town who dreams of becoming a writer and moving to New York City, navigating gang tensions, domestic violence and the weight of community expectation. When a soldier's diary fro...

Michelle Langstone reviews three new releases: Big Girls Don't Cry, Paloma Schneiderman's Sundance Audience Award-winning debut feature and New Zealand International Film Festival Best Film winner, starring newcomer Eny Palmer as a teenager navigating an Omaha summer in 2006, which Michelle describes as acutely observed and immersive in the way it captures that teenage feeling of waiting for life...

Cornelia Parker is one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists, known for large-scale installations that begin with acts of destruction. Her 2022 retrospective at Tate Britain cemented her status. She's now in Wellington for the opening of her first solo public gallery exhibition in New Zealand, at the newly earthquake-strengthened City Gallery Wellington, bringing together more than 50...

The Sargeson Prize is New Zealand's richest short story competition, named after Frank Sargeson and sponsored by the University of Waikato. Conceived by writer and lecturer Catherine Chidgey, it's open to original, unpublished work of no more than 5,000 words, with a prize of $15,000 for the Open Division winner. The award evening took place last night. Perlina Lau speaks with this year's winner.

The top stories and other headlines at midday

Bonnie Harrison is here guiding us through the latest weird and useful headlines from the world of science. This week: the menagerie of mites and bacteria that can be found in your unwashed bedsheets, how your smartwatch might be fooling you into eating more, and how the T-Rex really only walked as fast as a human.

Stuart Grieve KC joins Jim to discuss his new book Nothing But the Truth.

As the nation prepares to head to the polls, Jack Tame is gearing up to moderate next week's 1News Leaders Debate. Jack is a familiar face on New Zealand television screens. He hosts the current affairs programme Q+A, presents TVNZ's weekend news, and also hosts Saturday Morning with Jack Tame on Newstalk ZB. He joins Jim to discuss how he's preparing for the debate and to choose his Best Song Eva...

If you're a cat owner, you may have wondered what your cat does when no one is watching. It turns out they're not doing much. A study suggests cats spend up to three-quarters of their lives resting. Dr Michelle Smit led the research at Massey University and joins Jim.

Perfectly groomed 'barely there' fingernails are in vogue. Stylist Sarah Stuart with Jim to discuss what's driving the trend and whether it really does embody effortless luxury.

1996 Formula One World Champion Damon Hill joins Jim to discuss the documentary Hill, screening as part of the British and Irish Film Festival.

As the election campaign got underway officially, media seized on arguments about overhangs and vote-splitting dividing both sides. Also: RNZ's next boss unveiled, and the light touch and depth of the late Phil Gifford.

We all have moments when we forget, but are they signs we're on a trajectory towards dementia? Dr Tommy Wood is Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Neuroscience at the University of Washington and runs a laboratory that focuses on brain health across the lifespan. He's also the author of The Stimulated Mind: Future-Proof Your Brain from Dementia and Stay Sharp at Any Age. Tommy joins Jim to dis...

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning quiz. Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC's quiz show Only Connect, renowned for being both hard - and at the same time totally obvious. Wake up your brain and have a go!

UK correspondent Christian Smith joins Jim to discuss the big stories making news in Britain. This week: the findings that Manchester City Football Club used "sham contracts" to disguise hundreds of millions of pounds worth of funding to bypass spending rules.