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6:49 AM.Commuters in the capital are frustrated at long waits for buses this week as mass masking became mandatory.

Buses are streaming by not able to pick everyone up because of strict physical distancing… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.A Māori academic who has come forward alleging casual and structural racism within Waikato University says her concerns have been met with resounding silence from the university's leaders.

Professor… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.Five years after the deadly terrorist attack of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a trial of fourteen accused suspects has begun in Paris.

The magazine has chosen to reprint the controversial… Read more Audio

6:38 AM.Thousands of general practice nurses are expected to go on strike today as they bid for equal pay with hospital colleagues.

DHB nurses won a pay rise in 2018 following industrial action, but primary… Read more Audio

6:36 AM.New and better better emergency and acute care of children at Christchurch Hospital is not going to happen because there's no money to hire people to staff its new facilities.

The acting clinical… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.A Wellington city councillor is furious at Kiwirail's attempts to relocate its new ferry terminal into downtown Wellington.

Kiwirail has rejected calls to put the new Cook Strait ferry terminal at… Read more Audio

6:17 AM.Auckland secondary school principals want an urgent decision on whether their students will get more help to pass NCEA.

The government made changes to the qualification following the national… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The eighth seeded Croatian, Petra Martic, has advanced to the third round at the US Tennis Open with a straight sets win over Ukranian Kateryna Bondarenko. Read more Audio

8:56 AM.A Tasmanian tiger pelt has been found in a drawer in a Wairarapa taxidermy museum, where it has lain for decades.

David Thurrowgood from Applied Conservation Science in Tasmania was instrumental in… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Plans to build a multi-use ferry terminal in Wellington are in jeopardy, following Kiwirail's insistence it wants to move into the central city beside rival Bluebridge, but won't share facilities with… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.A tour of a plant treating oil and gas drilling waste in North Taranaki meant to soothe nieghbours concerns about foul smells and environmental damage has ended up reinforcing their worst fears.

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8:41 AM.Beneficiaries are going to be encouraged to do more volunteering, but the government's been warned it needs to ensure this doesn't turn into a 'work for the dole' scheme.

Social Development Minister… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.The Tahr Foundation says it's disappointed with the Department of Conservation's decision to press ahead with the majority of its planned tahr cull.

Hunting has not been enough to stop tahr numbers… Read more Audio

8:33 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:29 AM.After almost six months without a match, Black Caps captain Kane Williamson heads off for the Indian Premier League tomorrow.

He's one of six Kiwi cricketers set to feature in the tournament, which… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Levin is the location of the latest pop-up community testing centre, the mid-central DHB organising a day of tests for anyone and everyone.

It comes as the Ministry of Health looks to continue high… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.Groups working to house pacific families fear millions of dollars in funding could be wasted if the government doesn't involve their expertise.

Nearly one in five pacific people in New Zealand live… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.The New Zealand stock exchange suffered trading halts last week, as five days of distributed denial-of-service attacks took its website offline.

Other websites - including RNZ's - as well as Stuff… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Firefighters are calling for a inquiry into sexual assault and harassment within the fire service.

The call comes after the chief executive of the volunteers union, the United Fire Brigades'… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The National Party wants all people flying into the country are tested for Covid-19 before they embark, but at least five of the people who tested positive for Covid-19 in managed isolation yesterday… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The former world women's tennis number six Carla Suarez Navarro says she has been diagnosed with early stage Hodgkin lymphoma. Read more Audio

7:56 AM.A Māori specialist in artificial intelligence says it's only a matter of time before a Māori or Pasifika person is wrongfully arrested because of a false match on facial recognition software.

Police… Read more Audio