Our comedians Te Radar and Michele A'Court bring some levity the end of the week.

Dana on the crucial Eden Park test for the All Blacks, the Beldisloe Cup match tomorrow, the Black Ferns and the final matches in the Rugby World Cup and the New Zealand A League football player convicted for betting corruption.

Act MP Cameron Luxton accuses council of promoting Maori wards, unique marine research facility for Tauranga and the Auditor General brings an end to investigations into Tauranga City Council's spending.

Holly Walker reviews Dead Ends by Laura Borrowdale, published by Tender Press.

Former cop Robert Rattenbury on the human side of policing in his crime story about a jewellery shop robbery - it's called Heist in the Hutt.

Koroi discuss calls for action over climate change from Pacific leaders at the UN, presidential elections in Bougainville, tensions as New Caledonia markers 172 years since being colonised by France and Manu Samoa vying to qualify for Rugby World Cup RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins

A literary journal founded in Wellington two years ago has been named one of five international winners of a US literary magazine incubator prize.

Federated Farmers is demanding urgent action from both mobile companies and the government over often unreliable rural connectivity.

Primary sector leaders say food and fibre generates 81 per cent of the country's exports, but the work-based training that the workforce depends on is at risk.

Film and TV reviewer Tom Augustine looks at One Battle After Another, an epic action thriller inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.