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

6:49 AM.An international marine expert has waded in on debate over the science underpinning a plan to save Maui and Hector's dolphins, saying she tried to help, and was ignored.

The plan - which remains… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.A school principal says children whose families are locked out of the country by border closures are missing out on their education.

He has two students living in a shed in South Africa trying to… Read more Audio

6:34 AM.Far-right protesters and anti-racism demonstrators clashed repeatedly in London over the weekend with police trying to keep the two sides apart.

Hundreds of people wearing football shirts, chanting… Read more Audio

6:25 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:23 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:17 AM.Christchurch's New Brighton community says they're sick of waiting for a long-promised revamp to its run-down local shopping area, and wants the council to dump the group it's given the job to.

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6:14 AM.Midwives say a $2500 cash injection for each worker to help cover their lockdown costs isn't going to cut it. .

More than $92 million will go into essential health services that financially suffered… Read more Audio

6:04 AM.The Dragons have claimed their first win of the NRL season, beating the Sharks 30-16 in Sydney. Read more Audio

8:57 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Lumsden has been a regular early morning national hot spot in our weather reports.

Each morning RNZ lists the warmest and coldest places in New Zealand and in Lumsden the mercury is often hitting 12… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.A Wairarapa fishing couple want to sell a taste of their isolated bay. 

They fear New Zealanders are losing their connection with traditional kaimoana like crayfish and paua, so they're taking on the… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The ski season kicks off from today with Canterbury's Mt Hutt the first to welcome people back to the slopes.

Ski fields are celebrating the shift to Alert Level 1, saying the past month has been a… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Super Rugby Aotearoa is about to kick off, with the Highlanders hosting the Chiefs in Dunedin tomorrow night, before the Blues take on the Hurricanes in Auckland on Sunday afternoon.

The five New… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.The Drug Foundation is defending a campaign that's being labelled "misleading".

The ad, which encourages people to vote "yes" in the upcoming cannabis referendum, mentions "medicinal treatment".

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

8:27 AM.A leading New Zealand tech boss says a new global workforce could emerge in the wake of Covid-19 where borders are irrelevant and the office is replaced with video conferencing apps like Zoom.

Anna… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.Motorists in Wellington will need to allow more time for journeys through the central city, with a new 30 kilometre speed limit for most streets, to be introduced from the end of July.

The move was… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.Auckland's Mayor is resigned to further delays to his city's light rail project, which is caught up in electioneering.

As we've been reporting this morning RNZ understands New Zealand First is… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The call to remove statues and place names that honour racist figures from New Zealand's history is gaining momentum.

A local historian says monuments from the early 20th century celebrate… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The Chiefs will don limited edition 'Women in Rugby' jerseys against the Highlanders in Dunedin tomorrow night. Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Now we're at Level 1, anticipation is building for the return of live sport as the Highlanders take on the Chiefs at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium tomorrow night.

A crowd of more than 18,000 is… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.A truckie, who jumped down from his cab to rescue a kiwi from the jaws of a stoat in a remote part of north Taranaki last year, has taken the encounter full circle.

Alan Pennington was briefly… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.While New Zealand is revelling in the freedoms of Alert Level 1, for around 3000 people in hotel quarantine, just getting a bit of fresh air has been a lot more difficult.

Since April, everyone… Read more Audio