Catch up with the latest headlines from around the world with RNZ's Alice Wilkins.

The government has announced it will increase funding for aged care. Residential care providers will receive an additional $79 million from Health New Zealand. Tracey Martin from the Aged Care Association spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Aloha, this is Pacific Waves from RNZ Pacific with Susana Suisuiki In this update: Hawaiian cultural expert calls Trump's proclamation "disappointing", El Nino is here, and Pacific communities are feeling the pinch from cost of living pressures.

An executive order by Donald Trump to restore commercial fishing in protected waters has been called disappointing.

Pacific cmmunities in New Zealand's regions are feeling the pinch from cost of living pressures and cuts to social services in the past couple of years.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

El Nino has arrived in the Pacific Islands.

El Nino has arrived in the Pacific meaning some islands below the equator will see unusually dry conditions, while those above will see above average rainfall

Home to around 5 million people, Alberta is in the middle of a debate about seperatism. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Joel Dryden joins First Up from Alberta to explain the movement.

Paula Kanara from Whangarei's Habitat for Humanity ReStore tells First Up about collector glassware and a taxidermied possum and joey.