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5:21 AM.As we do every week, we catch up with the fine folk from the Local Democracy Reporting Programme to hear news from parts of New Zealand that sometimes get overlooked by the big news outlets. This… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.Not all New Zealanders in Tokyo are with the New Zealand team - many are plying their trades elsewhere. Kiwi Shane McLeod is the head coach of Belgium's mens hockey team, a role that he also held at… Read more Audio

5:54 AM.A little over an hour after Lisa Carrington blitzed the field to take Gold in the women's K1 200m final, she hopped in the boat with team-mate Caitlin Regal and did it all again. New Zealand's golden… Read more Audio

5:50 AM.Peter Burling and Blair Tuke sailed their way into the medals at the Tokyo Olympics, winning New Zealand a Silver in the mens 49er class The pair were looking to defend their Rio 2016 gold medal but… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Sandwiched between Lisa Carrington's two gold medals yesterday was Hamilton heavyweight David Nyika's bronze medal. His medal is New Zealand's first in boxing since David Tua won Bronze at Barcelona… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.It's the time of the week where we take a look round New Zealand's small businesses, this week we're talking to Mare Van der Berg. Her business 'Flour and Dough' make all kinds of baking Pre-mixes for… Read more Audio

5:15 AM.Among the 168 Olympic athletes now in MIQ in Christchurch, is BMX rider Rebecca Petch. The Te Awamutu rider beat out Sarah Walker to take centre stage in Tokyo and fought back hard after a nasty crash… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.To give us the latest news on what's happening over in Oz, Nathan Rarere is joined by our correspondent Pam Corkery. Audio

5:53 AM.Let's go now to Japan where overnight New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has made history as the first openly trans-person to compete in the Olympics.. She failed her first lift at 120 kilos. On… Read more Audio

5:42 AM.The latest Newshub-Reid Research political poll shows support for the Labour Party has slumped while the ACT Party - and its leader - are growing in popularity. It has Labour down 9.7 points to 43 per… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.It was a strong start at the canoeing for the Kiwi Olymic team. Lisa Carrington stormed through to the semifinals of the K1 200ms and the K2 500, along with team mate Caitlin Regal. As Caitlin… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.It's a big day at the Olympics for Kiwi watersports Lisa Carrington could become our most successful Olympic athlete EVER as she goes for two golds. The K200, a 200 meter solo dash, and the K2 500, a… Read more Audio

5:16 AM.On the eve of his fifth and final Olympic games, two-time middle distance medallist Nick Willis is reflecting on where it all began. Tokyo will be the Games swansong for the 38-year-old, who has added… Read more Audio

5:12 AM.This week on TradeMe, a central Auckland icon and a former Air New Zealand plane - but first, producer Jeremy Parkinson asked Millie Silvester about TradeMe's Kindness Store which is back raising… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.We begin this morning in the UK where new rules for fully jabbed US and EU arrivals begin. And some interesting incentives to encourage the UK youth into getting the Covid-19 vaccination. Joining… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.New Zealand's wonderful Olympic weekend continued with success inside the track and field stadium in Tokyo when champion shotputter Dame Valerie Adams added a bronze medal to her collection. Adams… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.As eight New Zealand women rowers powered into Silver medal position in Tokyo, it was a man who sat at the front of the boat. Caleb Shepherd became the first man to win an Olympics medal for a women's… Read more Audio

5:38 AM.Dylan Schmidt's stunning Bronze Medal on the Trampoline in Tokyo caps off a tireless journey that began as a five-year-old on the family's trampoline in Te Anau. Nathan Rarere caught up with Dylan… Read more Audio

5:25 AM.With us is our Minister of Fruit and Vege - Glenn Forsyth - after a frantic four days spreading the gospel of Fruit and Veg on the frontlines at the foodshow. Audio

5:16 AM.More than 15-and-a-half thousand people received their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at the country's first mass vaccination event over the weekend. 135 staff were involved with the… Read more Audio

5:12 AM.She's already a two-time Olympic champion after winning Gold in London and Rio, and today in Tokyo Lisa Carrington launches her bid to win four medals at a single Olympiad. Carrington begins her quest… Read more Audio

5:07 AM.Joining Nathan Rarere from Tokyo - where cases of covid-19 are once again rising, is our correspondent John Matthews. Audio

5:56 AM.From the Sea Forest Waterway to the Enoshima Yacht Harbour where over the weekend our sailors have high hopes for more gold. There have been a few hiccups along the way.. weather delays, poor starts… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.We've got one gold in the bag already.. could there be more on the way today? All eyes will be on the rowing course in Tokyo as the New Zealand mens and womens eights go for gold this afternoon… Read more Audio