Features

Civil society is looking at China as the best bet for reducing illegal logging in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.

The French National Assembly has voted to give French Polynesia a building in Papeete for a memorial site of the French nuclear weapons tests.

Papua New Guinea government allocations to the health and education sectors have reduced substantially in the last several years, an economist says.

The Pacific European Union Marine Partnership was launched today in New Caledonia .

New Zealand's Minister of Finance says New Zealand needs to better understand the contribution of its Pacific community. Audio

Journey's End is a new version of R C Sheriff's classic play about World War I, following a small group of men on the eve of the 1918 Spring Offensive. Video, Audio

Google designer turned full-time stand-up comedian and writer Sarah Cooper uses tongue-in-cheek advice to hold a mirror up to the double standards women face in at work. Audio, Gallery

Dunedin five-piece Six60 took home a total of five Tuis at the 2018 Vodafone NZ Music Awards, which took place at Auckland’s Spark Arena tonight.

Welcome to RNZ's live coverage of the 2018 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. The live blog kicks off at 7.30 tonight with red carpet shots, then once the ceremony begins, we'll have backstage interviews with all the winners.

Opinion - Simmering beneath the broader discussion of how state residences were managed has long been issue of the church's own surrogate role as parens patriae, David Cohen writes.

In a show set to surprise his fans, comedy legend Bill Murray produced some genuinely funny moments at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington last night. Elliott Childs went along.  Video, Audio

Marta Zabaleta gives a riveting version of the Ritual Fire Dance to end her performance of 'Love the Magician'. It's your free classical download for November.

We used to have just one home 'phone, one TV and maybe one computer, now kids can connect with other people anywhere, from anywhere - so how do we help them navigate all that? Audio

"The Loneliest Girl continues Princess Chelsea’s examination of storybook love and, ever so sweetly, defaces each page" Musician Chelsea Nikkel talks through some of her greatest influences with Kirsten Johnstone for The Mixtape.  Video, Audio

A new breed of sheep debuting at the New Zealand Agricultural Show in Christchurch is proving very popular with the crowd.

Review - In Kiwi feature film Vermilion - despite the best efforts of Jennifer Ward-Lealand and the rest of a pretty good cast - there's nothing to have an opinion about one way or the other, writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio

RNZ Music’s Kirsten Johnstone is overwhelmed by the incredible display of musicianship, movement, and joy on stage at the Talking Heads frontman's TSB Arena show in Wellington last night.

In a show set to surprise his fans, comedy legend Bill Murray produced some genuinely funny moments at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington last night. RNZ Music's Elliott Childs went along. Video, Audio

A "paradigm shift" in agriculture can massively boost farmers' profits and crop diversity, curb pests, and eliminate the need for tilling, pesticides and herbicides, scientist and farmer Jonathan Lundgren tells Kim Hill. Audio

Our Changing World - New Zealand has a growing population of older drivers and an important issue is 'when do they give up driving?' Audio

Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is one of the most celebrated albums in popular music. An exhaustive new 6-disc set lets us sit in on its construction. Audio

Analysis - Although its leader was severely tested in the Jami-Lee Ross saga, the real plot twist for National doesn't lie here, but in the dry prose of Treasury, Stats NZ and the Reserve Bank, writes Guyon Espiner.

"Oh my god, the look was everything: big hair, big, big, big hair - I'm bringing my biggest hair to New Zealand!" The Pointer Sisters (Bonnie, Ruth, Anita and June) were one of the most successful music acts of the 1970s and early 1980s and they're coming here this summer.  Video, Audio