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Capturing Alien Weaponry’s life-changing European tour was an “amazing” experience for cameraman and director Kent Belcher. Video, Audio

Al Park has been a stalwart of the Christchurch music scene for a considerable number of years. Trevor Reekie sits down with Al and Adam McGrath to talk about the new tribute album Better Already -… Audio

Coastal North Taranaki is very dry. There's a lot of feeding out taking place and, because of the shortage of feed, animals are being culled. Another hot dry week in Mid-Canterbury's allowed arable… Audio

Papua New Guinea's prime minister has officially launched an ambitious $US1.7 billion project that plans to get 70 percent of the country connected to electricity by 2030. Audio

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The North Island is generally coping well with the summer conditions, but in the South Island the Tasman district and Eastern Marlborough are very dry. Irrigation supplies are… Audio

Christchurch alt-country singer Katie Thompson is an expert at enlisting fans of her music – about half of whom are outside New Zealand – to help out her career. Katie's third album is due out… Video, Audio

Residents in parts of Wakefield near Nelson have been on alert through the night in case they need to evacuate as the bushfire continues to rage into its fourth day. The warning to prepare to leave… Audio

The head of Tonga's geology team says scientific data from Nasa about emerging life on the country's four year old volcanic island is hugely exciting with the government considering offically naming… Audio

Monique Lapins (violin), Dénes Várjon (piano). Recorded in Nelson Centre of Musical Arts by RNZ. Audio

In this episode of Voices; Latin American celebrations could be the next big drawcard for the region. Produced by Sara Vui-Talitu. Audio

Both the North and South Islands have been dripping under sweltering temperatures but generally the North Island farms have good amounts of feed. In Canterbury spring barley is going off for Gladfield… Audio

There's no relief in sight for some parts of the country sweltering in thirty degree plus temperatures. Napier and Blenheim jointly took out yesterday's top temperature of 35 degrees as warm air from… Audio

Hope is fading to find more than 200 workers missing after a dam collapse at a mining site in south-eastern Brazil. Thirty-seven people so far are confirmed to have died. Here is local man Rafael… Audio

Work has commenced in Papua New Guinea on the nearly $US900 million repair job for the Highlands main highway. Audio

Noha Ibrahim moved to New Zealand with her family from Egypt in 2016. She brings recipes for Sahlab, an Egyptian winter drink; Mediterranean Squid Tagine; and Qatayef, a Middle Eastern dessert. Audio

RNZ Music is proud to present our first video premiere of 2019. It’s a kooky but beautiful vid which you should definitely watch ‘til the end. Oh, and it's a great song too! Video

A "slow-motion trainwreck" is how Scott Macindoe describes the quota management system (QMS) introduced 32 years ago to guide the sustainable use of New Zealand's fisheries. Macindoe is a fisherman… Video, Audio

If you live in Auckland and like eating Pasifika food chances are you've already eaten at the popular Eight Roses cafe and buffet in Otahūhū.​ Owner and chef Freddy Tu'akalau shares with us his… Audio

Disaster authorities in Vanuatu say Malekula Island would be the first option for an evacuation of people from Ambrym if volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, which have been rocking that island this… Audio

Nick Bollinger lends an ear to the science-fiction, folk and electronica of Jane Weaver. Audio

On the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage, Leigh-Marama McLachlan explores what feminism means with Mani Dunlop, Donna Miles-Mojab, Tuiloma Lina-Jodi Samu and Farida Sultana.  Audio

Elisabeth Easther reviews The Kingfisher Secret by Anonymous, which is published by Penguin Random House. "The Kingfisher Secret is a thinly veiled depiction of Donald and Ivana Trump's marriage… Audio

Wellington City Councillor Fleur Fitzsimons says it’s unacceptable the Basin Reserve does not cater sufficiently for women and those with disabilities, but says the council is addressing the… Audio

If you live in the Hawke's Bay or Gisborne, you are among the most likely to be killed by a gun in New Zealand. Figures released by the police show the police's Eastern region has the highest rate of… Audio

When The Phoenix Foundation's Luke Buda decided to write a protest song to bring attention to the “horrific” situation of children detained in Nauru, he was initially intimidated by the subject… Video, Audio

Former Parisian model and beachwear designer from Los Angeles Jill Dodd was also a pleasure wife to one of the world's richest men in the 1980s: Adnan Khashoggi, the billionaire Middle Eastern arms… Audio

Kiwi conservationist Annette Lees says she's never had a bad swim. She explores why open water swimming has been and is still such a deep part of Kiwi culture in the new book Swim: a year of swimming… Audio, Gallery

When it comes to Chinese political influence, New Zealand's allies consider that we are something of a soft underbelly, according to Kiwi academic Anne-Marie Brady, who has studied Chinese politics… Audio

When you think 'coleslaw' do you picture the "heavy, overdressed creamy stuff you'd get at a supermarket"? Coleslaw is really underrated, says Jess Daniell of Jess' Underground Kitchen. She makes a… Audio