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7:52 AM.The struggling New Zealand sports sector is receiving a boost in its bid to survive and adapt amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sport and Recreation Minister Grant Robertson announced yesterday $265… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.School vans will be leaving in a few minutes to scour Auckland roads for students left behind by public buses.

Macleans College principal Steve Hargreaves is sending out the college's vehicles to… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Teachers and principals are today bracing themselves for the return of up to 800,000 school children.

But after eight weeks away, how smoothly will things go?

Neil Watson of Otahuhu College, Cathy… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.The consumer watchdog says Air New Zealand is still not refunding passengers booked on cancelled flights to or from the United States, and is providing misleading information to those seeking a… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.The telecommunications sector says a spate of suspected arson attacks on cellphone towers is putting lives at risk.

Fires at towers over the weekend mean there have now been 17 suspected attacks over… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.The loosening of restrictions under the shift to Alert Level 2 began last Thursday, but today is a whole new ball game as schools reopen and tens of thousands more people hit the roads, and return to… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.New figures obtained by RNZ show the last two years had the highest rates of gun crime and deaths involving firearms for nearly 10 years.

Despite that rise, there hasn't been a corresponding increase… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.As up to 800,000 school children head back to school today for the first time in eight weeks, many more parents are also able to return to their offices.

That means many more cars on the roads after… Read more Audio

7:08 AM.Teachers and principals are bracing themselves for all manner of reactions when eight-hundred-thousand school children return to class on Monday for the first time in eight weeks.

Some children will… Read more Audio

6:55 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

6:51 AM.The head of Sport Canterbury hopes a financial recovery package to deal with the impact of Covid-19 will drive a change in the sector's funding model.

Sport and Recreation will get $265 million in… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.The Government has earmarked $12 million in this year's budget to bolster security at the Maangere Refugee Resettlement Centre following the Christchurch Mosque attacks.

The Government is also… Read more Audio

6:37 AM.This morning the consumer watchdog is lodging a complaint with the Commerce Commission over Air New Zealand's ongoing refusal to refund passengers from all its cancelled US flights.

The airline last… Read more Audio

6:28 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:25 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

6:23 AM.Over 1000 people flocked to Christchurch's Riccarton Bush farmers market at the weekend.

It was the first time in seven weeks farmers markets were allowed to open due to Covid 19 restrictions.

RNZ… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.The Law Society says immigrants can be reassured that changes to urgent legislation will not used to disadvantage them.

The fast-tracked immigration bill passed through parliament in a week and… Read more Audio

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

8:53 AM.The National Aquarium in Napier could close within two years after the government signalled it won't help pay for a multimillion dollar renovation.

The government has refused Napier City Council's… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Whānau Ora providers are skeptical the significant boost in funding announced in the budget will meet the huge demand from families doing it tough.

The government has topped up the Whānau Ora budget… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Yesterday's Budget was touted as the jobs budget, but how to small business owners feel about it?

Steph Van Dusschoten runs Diveworks Charters in Whakatane and Matthew Bennett who owns Nibblish, a… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Global voices are urgently calling for a "people's vaccine" for Covid 19.

Among them are former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.

She has added her name to a letter from more than 140… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A new report on the nearly 40,000 people who signed on for the unemployment benefit during lockdown shows they're more likely to be first time beneficiaries, higher earners, recently returned from… Read more Audio

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