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Focusing on the Pacific region, the program brings you interviews with leaders, newsmakers, and people who make the Pacific beat.
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Samoa’s Prime Minister Laʻaulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Fosi Schmidt will hear his verdict today over a long-running conspiracy case, Mr Schmidt faces potential jail time if convicted.
Fiji's Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions has defended the move to grant immunity to several people charged in connection to the country's largest cocaine bust in order to catch the "big fish."
Solomon Islands' opposition claim they're the "government in waiting" with their 28 MPs holding the majority of seats in parliament.
The debate for a no confidence motion filed against Solomon Islands' PM Jeremiah Manele could be held as early as Tuesday after a mass resignation of government ministers but only when Mr Manele decides to convene parliament which could be as late as June.
After mass resignations and in the face of a no confidence motion, Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has appointed former Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who just a year ago attempted to oust him from office, as deputy Prime Minister.
Vanuatu's Internal Affairs Minister says that their latest drugs bust of two tonnes of cocaine on an abandoned yacht bears the hallmarks of an international drug syndicate operation.
A notice for a no-confidence vote has been lodged against Solomons' Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele. It comes as the former health minister says dozens of government members walked out because of mistrust within the government.
The decision to bestow a Samoan Chiefly title on the New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has found itself in controversy as questions arise over who asked for it and whether it has already been taken.
Fiji's HIV epidemic is worsening with infections up more than 25 per cent from the previous year.
The referral of PNG's Chief Justice, Sir Gibbs Salika, to the public prosecutor for failing to declare additional income has sparked heated debate on social media.
PNG's franchise in Australia's National Rugby League competition continues to take shape with the selection of a site for the team to live.
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has quashed most of the convictions against the senior bureaucrat at the centre of the country's biggest corruption case.
Ash fall from the Manaro Volcano has destroyed food gardens and spoiled water supplies for communities on Vanuatu's Ambae Island.
People on Vanuatu's Ambae Island have been warned to prepare to evacuate their homes as the Manaro Volcano continues to rumble.
PNG national elections, held every five years, have been deeply troubled, marred by violence, corruption and fraud, particularly in the volatile highlands.
Pacific Islanders in Dubai say the past few days have been incredibly scary, watching missiles streak across the sky and explode as air defences intercept them overhead.
Papua New Guinea turns to Australia for help to evacuate its citizens from the United Arab Emirates in the wake of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
A prominent Fijian lawyer is warning of a constitutional crisis if the president doesn't follow through on the advice of the Judicial Legal Services Commission and sack the head of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Australia's foreign minister got caught up in a verbal scrum over rugby funding during a visit to Samoa.
Tuvalu's Climate Change Minister, Dr Maina Talia told Pacific Beat this morning, that his Government is not encouraging Tuvaluans to permanently leave the country through migration pathways offered in the Falepili treaty.
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