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5:36 AM.The morgue in Fiji's capital city Suva is reported to be filled to capacity, and the funeral service which runs it says they're bracing for more Covid-19 deaths.

The country reported 352 new positive… Read more Audio

5:32 AM.While the world's sporting heads will be turned toward Tokyo in two and a half weeks, some of the country's future Olympians continue to ply their trade around the world. One such athlete is… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.This week on TradeMe's cool auctions - the opportunity for lunch and a tour of parliament with ACT leader David Seymour . But first, TradeMe's Millie Silvester tells producer Jeremy Parkinson about an… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.From eating a rock, to a sock.. to chowing down on a pack of sewing pins... and a puffer fish. Southern Cross has released a list of its most unusual pet insurance claims of 2020. The insurer paid out… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.In the UK, Boris Johnson has announced the government will lift most of the remaining Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th, that's despite a backlash from the government's own scientific advisers who… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.The pause on trans-Tasman travel has been lifted for four Australian states overnight despite parts of the country still grappling with worrying Covid-19 outbreaks. Yes Australians from South… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.How effective is sunscreen? With 500 New Zealanders dying from melanoma every year.. it's something Consumer NZ wants to find out. But each SPF test costs $5000 and they have to be conducted in labs… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.It's just 18 days until the Tokyo Olympics begin and one of the youngest athletes on the New Zealand team is 20-year-old Kanah Andrews-Nahu It will be the first Olympic Games for the weightlifter who… Read more Audio

5:26 AM.A look at the fruit and vege market, our minister of fruit and veggies, Glenn Forsyth spoke to Nathan Rarere. Audio

5:15 AM.An Australian virologist warns New Zealanders not to be so complacant as the Delta variant of Covid-19 sparks widespread outbreaks across the ditch and around the world. The highly transmissable… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.To Samoa now where the country is waiting to see whether outgoing Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi and key members of his government will be arrested for contempt of court after allegedly… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.Put June 24 in your diary for next year.. it will mark the first Matariki public holiday. The arrival of the star cluster also known as Pleides or Subaru marks the start of the Maori New Year The… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.Guy Heveldt speaks to Nathan Rarere for the last time before he goes to Japan for the olympic coverage. Wimbledon tennis court so slippery that multiple players are falling Serena Williams injures… Read more Audio

5:32 AM.Ski fields are starting to open around New Zealand and in the middle of Te ika a Maui, the ski fields of Whakapapa and Turoa are ready for business, Travis Donoghue, Chief Operating Officer of Ruapehu… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.Our minister of fruit and vege, Glenn Forsyth joined Nathan Rarere for a look at the week in fresh produce. Audio

5:17 AM.A North Canterbury farm rescue's food bill is soaring with more mouths, snouts and beaks to feed this winter. A dozen geese and Marshmallow the pig are the latest additons to settle in at Canterbury… Read more Audio

5:12 AM.The Chathams islands could end up being the first place in the country to have a fully vaccinated population. Our producer Matthew Theunissen has spent much of the week there getting to know the… Read more Audio

5:08 AM.The Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex - Princes William and Harry, have unveiled a statue of their mother, Princess Diana on what would have been her 60th birthday. It was the first time the pair had… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.And joining Nathan Rarere from the Chatham islands is our producer Matthew "Te IKA NUI" Theunissen who is making history of his own because he was the only reporter brave enough to get on the plane in… Read more Audio

5:49 AM.Let's go back to the Chatham islands now where their vaccine rollout is set to begin this morning. We've woken up our producer Matthew Theunissen who is there.. But first let's hear from two of the… Read more Audio

5:41 AM.With cases continuing to rise in Australia and opposition claims that we might run out of Pfizer vaccines here in New Zealand, Nathan Rarere asked the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson what the… Read more Audio

5:34 AM.And it's the time of the week when we catch up with our friends from the Local Democracy Reporting programme, who've been breaking stories up and down the country. Not least of them is LDR Northland… Read more Audio