Super Rugby Pacific awakes from its off-season slumber this weekend - will it finally start reaching its full potential with the fans? Sam Ackerman looks at the New Zealand teams, rugby's big off-field distraction and the other sporting highlights of the week.

Tension over rough sleepers, a $10m centre city makeover and Te Matatini comes to Taranaki.

David Hill reviews three of his favourite books from last year: Edith Collier: Early NZ Modernist by Jennifer Taylor, Jill Trevelyan and Greg Donson, published by Massey University Press, A House Built on Sand by Tina Shaw, published by Text Publishing, and Catch A Falling Star by Eileen Merriman, published by Penguin Random House NZ.

President Donald Trump has unveiled a more sweeping tariff regime in a move seen as trying to reset US trading ties with the rest of the world.

Eight years ago Kylie Frost was given a use it or lose it ultimatum by her physio - start exercising or go and find a wheelchair. This weekend, she'll compete in the Tarawera Ultra-trail in Rotorua.

RNZ Pacific journalist Caleb Fotheringham from the Cook Islands, where Prime Minister Mark Brown is due to return after a visit to Beijing which has caused major consternation.

Alan Sanson is taking people on a trip down heritage lane in Sanson - where he's collected seven houses from different architectural eras.

Environment Southland has warned against backyard nurseries selling pretty, but banned, plants on social media.

Six years after Grace Millane was murdered in Auckland, her mother, Gillian, speaks about the charity she founded which supports victims of violence. It's 2025 appeal gets underway today.

Film and TV reviewer Chris Schulz on what he's been watching