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5:48 AM.A community museum in the Waikato needs help putting names to faces. More than 300 photographs depiciting life in 1950's Huntly have been donated to the Waikato Coalfields museum after being… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.Young people, Maori and single people are some of the most vulnerable people in the country because they are victims of repeat crime each year. The Justice Ministry has just released its latest report… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.Boutique chocolate company Ocho is ramping up business two years after a well-publicised crowd-funding campaign raised two-million dollars in less than 48 hours. Ocho was born in 2017 after Cadbury… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.What's hot and what's not for Christmas? Most definitely not socks and undies. But a new Bullitt Mustang would be high on the hot list. Our producer Jeremy Parkinson caught up with TradeMe's Millie… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.To the US now, where lawyers for the Democrats and Republicans are laying out the case for - and against - impeaching President Trump at a hearing. Early on in the proceedings, House Judiciary… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.While the Christmas season is supposed to be a joyous time for many, for those living under the poverty line - it can mean suicide, depression and family violence. The Spirit Army is a citizen-led… Read more Audio

5:38 AM.A city bigger than Dunedin - that's how many New Zealand children are living in serious poverty. It's just one of the findings in the 2019 Child Poverty Monitor, examining hardship in New Zealand. The… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.For his second to last Monday fruit and vegetable market report, it's good morning to Glenn Forsyth. Audio

5:10 AM.Some of the 970 tourists trapped in Franz Josef are feeling lucky to be alive after escaping rising flood waters during the weekend storm. Slips and wash outs south and north of the tourist town mean… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.To Samoa where the death toll in the measles epidemic has now reached 68. There have been 121 new cases of measles recorded in the past 24 hours. National Party MP Agnes Loheni is New Zealand's first… Read more Audio

5:54 AM.Let's go now to Samoa where the country will be in lockdown for another day today as medical teams race to vaccinate as many people as they can in their homes. Yesterday the death toll from the… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.Sexual abuse survivor Louise Nicholas is demanding an apology from both the Otago Daily Times and Garrick Tremain after revelations the cartoonist also made light of her rape case. First Up was… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.It's Friday, which means it's fruit and vege time with our mate Glenn Forsyth. Fruit and vege speicals plus how kiwifruit got its name. Audio

5:10 AM.Fancy a red kiwifruit on your Christmas pav? It could soon be a reality after Zespri announced this week a new, thinner skinned, berry-flavoured kiwifruit is in production. Zespri CEO Dan Mathieson… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.Christmas is busy for any small business - but what happens if your power company plans an outage mid-way through December? For the owner of the Buckley Road Foodstore in Auckland, Maureen Ballard, it… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.Samoans in Auckland are bracing themselves for a sombre Christmas as the measles death toll continues to rise in their homeland. More than a hundred people gathered in Mangere last night to pray and… Read more Audio

5:07 AM.Nato's 70th anniversary summit has been overshadowed by rows, including a spat over a recording of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appearing to mock US President Donald Trump. Leaders of the… Read more Audio