The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

Pasifika musicians celebrated their art and culture at this year's Pacific Music Awards.

Arts producer Shaun D Wilson joins First Up from Scotland where the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has kicked off.

Richard Warwick, First Up's Associate Minister of Fruit and Veggies, on the best produce available this week, including the Fruit of the Week - the New Zealand Navel Orange.

Correspondent Zach Montellaro has the latest from Washington.

The latest news in Cook Islands Maori (Te Reo Maori Kuki Airani) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

(18LS) Comedian Brynley Stent (Bryn & Ku's Singles Club, Taskmaster) lifts the curtain on a Cats-inspired erotic fiction, drowning us in erotic puns that Andrew Lloyd Webber would be proud of.

Luxon made it through yet another leadership coup, but with National divided, the polls shifting, and a new kingmaker emerging, the question is whether he can survive until election day

A wrap of the day's big stories

After the success of his debut novel, The Slow Roll, he's back once again with his second novel, Burn Card.