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7:53 AM.Mt Ruapehu is on a raised volcanic alert level because of strong tremors in the area.

The crater lake - Te Wai a-moe - is also heating up and has reached 31 degrees Celsius.

There is a possibility… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Security experts are calling for investigations into the protests at parliament to examine how prepared the police were for the riots which marked the end of the 23-day occupation.

Two months before… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says private motorists have been carrying the commercial sector for too long and it plans to even the playing field by upping operators' fees at the end of next year.

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7:39 AM.Police divers are joining the search for the last person missing in the Far North fishing boat disaster. Four people have died and five were rescued after the Enchanter sank off North Cape on Sunday.

7:27 AM.There are weeks of cleanup ahead for some homes in Auckland and Northland after the violent storm which hit the region.

A fast and furious downpour hit the upper part of the country overnight Sunday… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.The Foreign Minister says the decision not to provide lethal aid to Ukraine was deliberate.

The Government yesterday announced it would contribute $5 million to a NATO fund that provides non-lethal… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.The war in Ukraine remains at its most horrific in the southern port city of Mariupol.

Russia issued an ultimatum overnight demanding the city's surrender in return for the safe passage out of more… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.The search for the last person missing in the Far North fishing boat disaster will resume this morning.

Four people died and and five were rescued after the Enchanter sank off North Cape on Sunday… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Many Aucklanders have a big clean up job on their hands after Monday morning's sudden downpour swept through several properties.

BFT One Tree Hill owner Dave Smart was inside his gym when the… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.The search for the last person missing after a fishing charter boat sank near North Cape on Sunday is continuing this morning.

Five people survived and were rescued by helicopter, four people died… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.Aucklanders are cleaning up after being hammered by heavy rain and thunderstorms yesterday morning. Torrential rain caused severe flooding, leaving many homes without electricity for several hours.

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6:09 AM.The conflict in Ukraine remains at its most horrific in the southern port city of Mariupol.

Russia issued an ultimatum overnight demanding the city's surrender in return for the safe evacuation of… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.Antarctica, the world's coldest continent holding 70 percent of the planet's freshwater, has just experienced a freak heatwave.

Temperatures over the eastern Antarctic sheet have soared up to 40… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.The Green Party has blown the whistle on secret talks aimed at boosting enrolments to the country's three boarding schools for children with disabilities.

RNZ revealed last year the schools are paid… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Now I don't know my ABC - the perilous state of literacy in Aotearoa New Zealand.

That's the title of new report from the Education Hub think tank which examines the reasons why over a third of… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Big questions are being raised over whether hospitals are accurately reporting their massive spending on often highly paid contractors.

There's a warning the health reforms could make the public… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Wild weather has lashed parts of the north of the North Island over night.

Whangarei's mayor Sheryl Mai spoke to Susie Ferguson after she was briefed on the latest flooding. Read more Audio