Hip-hop soul singer Ladi6 - aka Karoline Fuarosa Park-Tamati is a finalist in three categories at the Aotearoa Music Awards later this month. Following the release of her latest album - Le Va - Ladi6 is up for Album of the Year, Best Solo Artist, and Single of the Year for Lightbulb.

US President Donald Trump in China for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Edward White is the Financial Times China correspondent.

The Members Bill was drawn from the so-called biscuit tin in 2024 and passed it's first reading on - appropriately perhaps - April Fools Day this year.

Asher says the country's ever-increasing muster is because it is ultimately cheaper to put people in jail than to pay for the support services that might keep them away from crime.

Film and television reviewer Tamar Munch

Tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day - the annual fundraiser  that aims to raise awareness about bullying.

Technology commentator Mark Pesce on the latest issues.

The trial of Haydn Tasker who is alleged to have murdered Nelson policewoman Lyn Fleming, problems with drunken teens, Ai helping marine famers and the ongoing saga of the former interislander, Aratere, moored since late last year.

Paul Diamond reviews The Good Settler by Richard Shaw, published by Massey University Press.

A collection of short stories about women across generations has taken out New Zealand's top prize for fiction. All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks was last night announced as the winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at last night's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The book of nine short stories follows women at various periods in time and place navigating the social or political challenges of the day: from a queer nurse feeling lost in her family home following her return from the Great War, the children of the gardener at Truby King's hospital making sense of what happens to the mothers and babies there; to a mother trying to keep her children healthy while living in a sub-par rental. Ingrid's interest in 18th century feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft is also included here - building on her non-fiction work and research about her. She joins Kathryn to explain how she's woven these stories together.