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8:26 AM.The shift from MIQ to home isolation for New Zealanders travelling from Australia kicks in today.

Airports are expecting thousands more passengers through their terminals this week and are ready for… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Igor Titov, a Ukrainian who has been in New Zealand for the past eight years, didn't get much sleep last night.

The Wellington-based manager has been spending every available minute following what he… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Russia's President Vladimir Putin has announced his country's nuclear deterrent forces are on special alert.

A situation condemned by NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg.. The increased alert… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Vehicle access to Auckland Domain remains closed due to a small number of anti-mandate protesters setting up camp and refusing to leave.

They moved there after Saturday's harbour bridge march… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.A senior lawyer says the High Court's decision to quash the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for police and Defence Force staff won't affect other mandates.

Dentons Kensington Swan specialist public lawyer… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.A Covid-19 modeller believes the criteria for close contacts to self-isolate for Covid-19 is too narrow, and could lead to an underdiagnosis of cases.

Only household contacts of cases are required to… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.Council engineers have confirmed that the protesters at Parliament have plumbed toilets into the Capital's sewer system.

A plywood structure next to the portaloos at the intersection of Molesworth… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.A volunteer firefighter was allowed to remain on his brigade after being convicted of sexually abusing his six-year-old son.

The victim's mother says the fire brigade showed public support for the… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.Graham Duggan was expecting to be counting down his final weeks in Ukraine working for the Red Cross in late February.

The Porirua-born aid worker was down to his final three months.

Now he's… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Jacinda Ardern spoke to Morning Report on Monday about the High Court quashing vaccine mandates in the police and defence force.

RNZ political editor Jane Patterson was listening in.

She spoke to… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.The Prime Minister has sought advice from officials about rich Russians investing here, in the wake of the country's invasion of Ukraine.

Several countries, including the UK, have put sanctions on… Read more Video, Audio

6:46 AM.The police association says some officers who resigned rather than get a Covid-19 vaccination have been seen protesting at parliament, facing down their former colleagues on the front line.

Now the… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.Ukrainian New Zealander Olya Tolpyhina has been following events in her homeland with abject horror.

She has also been trying to maintain contact with her parents, who live about 200 kilometres from… Read more Audio

6:11 AM.There have been two significant developments in Russia's war with Ukraine overnight.

Ukraine has agreed to hold talks with Russia at the Ukraine-Belarus border.

But on the same day Vladimir Putin… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.GP's fear there will be spats over RATs.

They say demand is high for rapid antigen test and doctors may struggle to meet mistaken public expectations that the tests are already there for all to use.

8:51 AM.One team is trying to make history, while the other is trying to avoid it in the second cricket test between New Zealand and South Africa set to start in Christchurch later this morning.

The Black… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.Helensville could become home to a solar farm that's almost as big as the town itself.

The 100-hectare project has met fierce opposition from a group of locals, preparing to fight tooth and nail to… Read more Audio