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

6:45 AM.There are concerns that universities are still churning out social workers who don't have the skills to work well with Māori. 

It comes as report by the Children's Commissioner reveals harrowing… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.Small tourism operators are struggling as their clientele have almost been completely slashed, but the Department of Conservation is refusing to discount fees.

Those who use DOC land have to pay… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.University of Waikato criminologist Juan Tauri said the weapons can be hugely damaging and suggesting them was a diversionary tactic.

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster suggested police officers could… Read more Audio

6:39 AM.A former police officer and crisis negotiator says sponge bullets would be a useful weapon for front line police but have to be trialled properly first.

The AOS already have them and the Police… Read more Audio

6:23 AM.The Education Ministry is taking the blame for mistakes in delivery of modems and computers to school students during and after the lockdown.

Auckland secondary school principals say they have been… 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

6:18 AM.KiwiRail admits it hasn't made the final payment on the latest Chinese made locomotives it bought last year, because they haven't met their performance target.

Since 2009, KiwiRail has bought 63 of… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.New Zealand will limit the number of people travelling to Scott Base this year. It's part of a strict isolation plan to keep the continent Covid-19 free.

Chief executive of Antarctica New Zealand… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.The move to Covid-19 Alert Level 1 has put paid to a plan for pop-up bike lanes in Wellington that would have given cyclists more space.

The City Council says there's no longer a reason to push on… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.A campaign to stop Christchurch households from using their recycling bins to dump their smelly non-recyclable waste, is so far failing to change peoples' behaviour.

On Monday close to half of all… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Peace activists say New Zealand shouldn't send a ship to take part in a major war games exercise off the coast of Hawaii.

The Rim of the Pacific exercise - or Rimpac - is the world's largest… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.The new national polytechnic is facing a bleak first year of existence after 11 of its 16 member institutes announced losses for last year totaling millions of dollars.

The polytechnics that now make… Read more Audio

8:34 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:29 AM.Teachers at Marist College in Auckland are being criticised for tearing down Black Lives Matter posters at the school.
 
Nia Cherington' s mother Ani says her daughter has quit as the school's… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.The Police Commissioner has admitted the police should have consulted earlier and more widely before starting its Armed Response Team trial.

The Commissioner has now scrapped Armed Response Teams… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The government expects almost a million people to come off the $11 billion wage subsidy scheme over the next month.

But applications for an eight week extension open today, applying to businesses… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A massive stocktake of the country's hospitals has reveal many intensive care units, operating theatres and Emergency Departments are in 'poor or very poor' shape.

The Government is releasing the… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.The Trade Minister, David Parker, has taken a swipe at the European Union's negative and protectionist stance on a proposed free trade deal.

Talks have been going on for about two years, but David… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The Auckland Business Chamber is describing a KiwiRail move as "unconscionable".

The state-owned enterprise is awarding a $371m government rail contract to two overseas companies.

The chamber says… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.The way people will pay for the transmission of their electricity from now on is being revealed later today.

The Electricity Authority, which monitors the electricity market to ensure it is working… Read more Audio