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Businesses in a rural Waikato town are banding together as a major road closure is forcing people to bypass the town. Chris McDonnell, owner of the Pirongia Four Square spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Tropical Cyclone Wati descends on the Cook Islands, As Super Typhoon Champi retreats from Guam; Bushfires are battering communities in PNG; and we reflect on a weekend of rugby league.

Tropical Cyclone Wati descends on Aitutaki.

Super Typhoon Champi retreats from Guam.

Bushfires are battering communities in PNG.

The results of the opening round of the RLWC 2026.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

Construction of the latest stretch of highway north of Wellington has already moved more than a million cubic metres of earth. The 24-kilometre Otaki to North of Levin motorway - Te Pae o Tararua - is expected to open in late 2029. Costing just over 2 billion dollars, it will turn into a new, smoother State Highway 1, replacing the dangerous roads in operation today. Jimmy Ellingham reports on the...

ACT leader David Seymour discusses the party's approach to forming a coalition and their priorities when negotiating.

Local Democracy Reporter Mathew Nash has the latest from Rotorua.

Correspondent Ellie Jay brings First Up the latest from the United Kingdom.

Kim Hill is in conversation with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about selfish genes and the evolution of a new species: AI.

A wrap of the day's big stories

For her latest work, HIDE, poet and artist Rebecca Hawkes has woven together the stories of a medieval mystic scribe and a modern shepherd's daughter. The work has also been transformed into a musical performance with a complete cello score by Emily Winter. Rebecca joins Emile to discuss the project.

Nights sports commentator on the return of club cricket and a look at the various Trans-Tasman sporting competitions currently taking place, plus Formula 1 looks to be returning to Africa.

Every Monday, we take a moment to look back with our resident historian, Emma Kay. Emma runs Small Histories of New Zealand, where she digs up curious stories, funny articles, and lost treasures from our past and shares them on social media. This week Emma is taking a look at the history of of joke political parties.

A set of aerial photographs of a remote Pacific atoll has sparked global interest in the search for long lost aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. In 1932, Earhart was first woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic. But in 1937, along with her navigator, Earhart vanished over the Pacific while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, spawning decades of speculation about her fate. Recent inter...

The latest news from Melanesia.

Over the weekend, The Post's national affairs editor Andrea Vance bemoaned a lack of seriousness or inspiration to election campaigning.

ABC Wantok Program for 19 October 2026.

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: Peptides: are being sold online as the magic substance that fixes everything: skin pigment, wrinkles, and of course, unwanted weight. Just today, health authorities in New South Wales issued a warning about unapproved peptides, after a huge rise in hospital visits associated with t...

First up, more discussion around politicians meeting gang members as Te Pati Maori MP Oriini Kaipara is doubling down on her support of gangs saying "I will not ever turn my back on whanau in need". Then, Labour's social media policy is fully revealed, they'll create a new digital regulator to tell the tech companies what to do. Will it make your children safer? And meet the Hawke's Bay eye surgeo...

Europe correspondent, Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in response to the latest nationwide protests, as well as the UK health secretary announcing a major funding boost heading into winter.

The Crown says Kyle Whorral went to the shops and never came back. The 33-year-old PhD student from America was killed in an attack at a bus stop in the Auckland suburb of Meadowbank in April last year. Four teenagers are on trial after pleading not guilty to his murder and aggravated robbery in the High Court at Auckland. Finn Blackwell reports.