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New research suggests what we thought we knew about how early Polynesians arrived in the south Pacific, might not be quite right. Auckland University's Associate Professor Ethnan Cochrae has… Read more Audio

This weekend Palmerston North is being treated to a Lego-extravaganza Brickcon is on at the Arena this Saturday and Sunday. It's possibly the biggest Lego convention able to take place in the world -… Read more Audio

Hong Kong police have shut off parts Victoria Park - where tens of thousands usually gather to commemorate China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Police had banned the usually annual vigil for the… Read more Audio

Eighty years ago today - in 1941 - ten women entered police training, the first women in New Zealand to do so. The National Council of Women had been lobbying for women to be allowed to join the New… Read more Audio

Dr Dianne Sika-Paotonu, the Associate Dean (Pacific) at the University of Otago, Wellington, has won the New Zealand Association of Scientists Cranwell Medal for science communication for 2020. Dr… Read more Audio

It's being reported that Samoa's caretaker prime minister and prime-minister-elect met today as part of secret negotiations about the transition to a new government. The Samoa Observer quotes the… Read more Audio

Tonight's cricket test between New Zealand and England at Lord's is the first being played in front of fans in the UK in nearly two years. It's the first of two tests before New Zealand play India in… Read more Audio