Summer Report

With the ready availability of digital music, you might expect record stores to be a dying breed. Audio

An annual six-day water safety based wananga or camp aimed at lowering the Maori drowning toll by reconnecting Maori youth with the sea wound up in Hawkes Bay yesterday. Audio

It's one of Hollywood's big days of the year with the Golden Globes to be awarded in a lavish ceremony in Los Angeles. Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Advocacy groups and the Council of Trade Unions say drug testing of beneficiaries should be scrapped after it was revealed only 22 failed in the two-and-a-half months to September the 30th. Audio

A steady stream of mourners in Jerusalem has been filing past the coffin of the late prime minister Ariel Sharon whose body is lying in state at Israel's parliament, the Knesset. Audio

Our reporter Jacob McSweeny has the latest from Tonga this morning. Audio

Thousands of people in Tonga are without water, shelter or power after a category five tropical cyclone ripped through the kingdom this weekend. Audio

Try-outs to join the best hip-hop dance group in the world take place in just a few weeks in Auckland. Audio

The Act Party has begun the search for a new face to be its candidate in Epsom, and potentially lead the party. Audio

The French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler has been admitted to hospital after media reports of an alleged affair involving the President Francois Hollande. Audio