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

6:19 AM.The Green Party is being warned that a fertiliser levy isn't the answer to more sustainable farming.

The Greens unveiled its agriculture policy in Canterbury at the weekend, where the party announced… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.At least 33 people have died in wild fires ravaging the West Coast of the United States.

Fires have been raging in Oregon, California and Washington state for three weeks, burning millions of acres… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.Fire fighters are battling a fire on a fishing boat in Milford Sound on Monday morning.

Reporter Jean Bell speaks to Susie Ferguson. Read more Audio

8:55 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

8:54 AM.A new housing development for disabled children has been opened in Napier.

The new homes have been built especially for the children and are designed to reduce sensory overload - cutting down on… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.A colourful byproduct of a dark chapter in New Zealand's wartime history has been unearthed by researchers in the form of hundreds of artworks made by prisoners of war brought here during World War… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.The Japanese Coast Guard has called off its full-time search for Gulf Livestock 1, the live export ship that went missing in a typhoon in the East China Sea.

That leaves 40 crew members, including… Read more Audio

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

8:28 AM.An international expert in infectious disease says the halting of a Covid-19 vaccine trial by Oxford University is a positive sign.

AstraZeneca paused the third stage of clinical trials for the… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Back to the US now where at least seven people have died, and tens of thousands have had to evacuate amid terrifying wildfires on the country's West Coast.

The sky in San Francisco has turned a dark… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.A jury has heard the New Zealand president of the Comancheros motorcycle gang suspected his phone was bugged, and fretted about being arrested eight months before a major police bust.

Five people… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko is sitting near the top of the leaderboard following her opening round at the ANA Inspiration in California. Read more Audio

7:57 AM.The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has reworked upcoming performances in Auckland and Wellington because parts of the set list couldn't be played while maintaining distance between musicians.

Three… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Heritage advocates say proposed changes to building regulations in Wellington will destroy the capital's architectural feel.

With the city's population set to expand by tens of thousands over the… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.An early childhood educator says the number of complaints about preschools lodged with the Ministry of Education remains unacceptably high and may only represent the tip of the iceberg.

The Ministry… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.The European Union is threatening legal action over the United Kingdom's plan to drop part of its Brexit agreements.

The Union has strongly criticised opposes the Internal Market Bill, which could… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.An environmentalist group has failed in its attempt to block the construction of a huge waste dump for gold mines at Waihi.

A High Court decision to clear the sale of land to OceanaGold marks a… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.The Mitre 10 Cup kicks off this weekend and the first round will be a blockbuster with the All Blacks available and champing at the bit to play for their province.

The All Blacks don't typically play… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.Cabinet meets on Monday to review Covid-19 alert levels in Auckland and the rest of the country.

By then, New Zealand's largest city will have operated for two weeks at Level 2.5 and it will have… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.Pacific health leaders are warning that bringing police in to help with Covid-19 contact tracing is a bad look and there are better ways to bolster expertise.

The police are providing advice to the… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Leaders of the Mount Roskill Evangelical Fellowship church say they want their entire congregation of more than 300 people to have been re-tested for Covid-19 by the end of today.

There are 45 cases… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko is close to the top of the leaderboard nearing the end of her opening round at the ANA Inspiration major in California. Read more Audio

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