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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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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.
Vanuatu's Climate Envoy Ralph Regenvanu is urging countries to stay engaged, after the United States pushed for Vanuatu to withdraw a UN motion supporting a landmark climate ruling.
Papua New Guinea is heading towards a national election next year and there are warnings, the integrity of the vote could be at risk. The latest Corruption Perceptions Index saw PNG's score drop to 26 out of 100 and raising fresh concerns about corruption and declining trust in government institutions.
Fiji and Palau have both raised their hands to host a UN climate meeting in the Pacific ahead of the COP or Conference of the Parties gathering in Türkiye later this year.
An Independent MP in Fiji's Parliament has called on Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka to resign after a High Court ruling found he had acted unlawfully when he advised the president to sack the country's anti-corruption commissioner.
Timor-Leste's capital Dili is grappling with a dengue fever outbreak. Five children have died, and over one thousand cases have been recorded in just the past month. The surge in infections has overwhelmed hospitals, with bed shortages forcing some patients to be treated while sitting in chairs
French Polynesia made international headlines recently after five tonnes of cocaine were seized by the French navy from a visiting ship, the MV Raider. The haul worth an estimated $213 million was intercepted en route to Australia.
The President of the Marshall Islands, Hilda Heine, is in Australia on an historic state visit — the first by a Marshallese leader in more than three decades.
The Prime Minister of Fiji, Sitiveni Rabuka directs that an appeal be lodged against a High Court ruling over the dismissal of the country's anti-corruption commissioner. Also, Palau's President, Surangel Whipps Junior, pushes ahead with a controversial plan to resettle deportees from the United States.
1Tonga's Prime Minister Lord Fakafanua has invited the US Deputy Secretary of State to visit the Kingdom in a bid to strengthen ties with Washington. The invitation comes after the United States imposed a travel ban on Tongans, halting new visitor and student visas.
US deep sea mining plans shows no signs of slowing down after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finalised new rules designed to fast‑track seabed mining permits. Also, the US turns to Pacific Compact free agreements as a potential blueprint for gaining access to Greenland.
The governments of Australia and Timor-Leste sign an agreement to strengthen their bilateral relationship and fast track a major natural gas project. Also, onlookers in Fiji are wonder how deeply embedded drug trafficking is in the country after seizure of 2.6 tonnes of cocaine.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese makes his first official visit to Timor-Leste amid growing Chinese influence and long-running negotiations over the Greater Sunrise gas field. Also, Tonga's police chief hopes long prison sentences for importing methamphetamine will act as a deterrent to other would be traffickers.
Samoan novelist and poet Papali'i Sia Figiel is found dead at Tanumalala Prison where she was being housed while waiting for the outcome of a high profile murder trial. Also, more people are charged over a massive cocaine haul in Fiji, with police issuing conspiracy charges on five more suspects.
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