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7:41 AM.Auckland principals says roll numbers are climbing after half-full classes greeted them when schools reopened this week under level 2.5.

Safety concerns were cited for a low turnout on Monday, most… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.Some secondary school principals want the government to change the rules so NCEA and Scholarship exams can go ahead during a lockdown.

Students are worried the exams in November and December will be… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Some public health experts say the hastily-improvised alert level system needs to be updated to eliminate the virus a second time.

The University of Otago's Professor Nick Wilson says it's too early… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.Cabinet Ministers will meet today to review the country's alert levels, which are set to expire this Sunday.

A decision is expected shortly after. ACT Party leader David Seymour says many areas… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.The Taranaki Green School at the centre of a political funding row has aspirations to create an 'eco-village' at its Oakura site including 20 houses.

This is news to the Green Party co-leader James… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.A former deputy chair of the Canterbury District Health Board is accusing the Ministry of Health and Treasury of an ongoing campaign at the highest levels, to get rid of David Meates.

The DHB's chief… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says the situation involving a missing cattle ship in the East China Sea is incredibly serious.

The Gulf Livestock 1 was confirmed missing on Thursday morning… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Inter-island rugby rivalry returns this weekend when the North faces the South in what will be an empty stadium Wellington.

A regular fixture in the amateur era, it has been revived in a year robbed… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.Professor Shaun Hendy, whose modelling has guided the Government's Covid-19 response, is warning it's too risky for the country to to move down to Alert Level 1.

Cabinet will decide today whether or… Read more Audio

6:37 AM.The search is continuing for the cargo ship, the Gulf Livestock 1, which is believed to have capsized and sunk after it lost an engine during a typhoon in the East China Sea.

The 43-strong crew… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:11 AM.The former Otago, Highlanders and All Blacks coach Laurie Mains admits he's a little suprised that Aaron Mauger is leaving the franchise.

Mauger has been in charge the last three years but in a… Read more Audio

6:08 AM.A researcher modelling Covid-19 death rates for different ethnicities estimates 600 Māori and over 900 Pasifika would die in the Counties Manukau district alone if the disease was allowed run… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now Hollywood producers.

Harry and Meghan have signed a multiyear deal with Netflix which will pay them to make documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Yachties fear Kiwrail's two new mammoth Cook Strait ferries will spell the end of racing in Wellington's inner harbour.

To accommodate the new ships, Kiwirail wants to move its Interislander terminal… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Billions of dollars have been wiped off the events calendar thanks to the mass cancellation of conferences and conventions.

In a normal year there are more than five-thousand business events… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Teenagers are warning the pandemic has ruined the school year and more NCEA changes are needed to help the most disadvantaged.

Their comments come as the Education Review Office reports a third of… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:28 AM.New Zealand Cricket has shown faith in its men's head coach Gary Stead by extending his contract for a further three years.

Stead helped steer the Black Caps to the final of last year's World Cup -… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.Fewer patients die and less ICU support is needed when patients with Covid-19 are given corticosteroids.

That's according to new research published today by the Journal of the American Medical… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.Australia is officially in a recession after the figures from its June quarter revealed GDP has shrunk by a record 7 percent.

The grim numbers are a direct result of Covid-19 and were widely expected… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Children will miss out on specialised medical services they were to get for the first time in Canterbury and the District Health Board's health funding woes are to blame.

The district health board… Read more Audio