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7:10 AM.The legal bills are $1.9 million and counting as Auckland Council effectively fights itself in two court cases.

The council's development company Panuku has been taking the council to the Environment… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.New Zealand's greatest equestrian Sir Mark Todd is retiring from the sport a second time and is adamant there will be no second comeback. Audio

6:45 AM.Federated Farmers says a campaign being launched this morning to highlight animal welfare and environmental problems caused by winter grazing is another attack on the industry.

With winter grazing… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Hundreds of people continue to occupy the whenua in Māngere to stop a special housing development from being built on ancestral land near Auckland airport.

On Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.Auckland mayor Phil Goff says it's a sad reality that making good decisions can end up costing ratepayers a small fortune in legal bills.

The council's development company Panuku, is embroiled in… Read more Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:14 AM.A massive manhunt is still underway in Canada as police - and now the military - search for two teenagers suspected of murdering three people.

Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, have been on… Read more Audio

6:08 AM.Health Minister David Clark intends to outline his plan to improve cancer services in the coming weeks, as National unveils a policy to establish a new national agency.

Its leader, Simon Bridges… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The two-time Olympic equestrian champion Sir Mark Todd has announced his retirement from the sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Auckland Council is spending almost 2 million dollars fighting itself in two Environment Court cases.Hundreds are continuing to protest at Ihumatao despite housing construction being put on hold… 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

8:51 AM.The first-ever public showing of the the religious manuscripts of the Maori prophet Te Kooti opens this evening.

The original documents of the Ringatū religion he founded 150 years ago go on display… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.Aileen Aspden died in North Shore Hospital in 2015.

The 83-year-old was admitted because of a relapse of her Crohn's disease.

The Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill said opportunities… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Ngāti Rangi iwi members say the passing of a treaty settlement into law marks the beginning of a new era for the iwi.

The iwi's settlement passed it's third and final reading in Parliament on… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.The biggest changes to mental health and addiction services in decades are about to be unveiled.

This year's budget set aside $455 million for frontline services in mental health and now the… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.Over to the US where the fall-out from special counsel Robert Mueller's evidence against US President Donald Trump continues.

The former FBI director Robert Mueller spent two years probing alleged… Read more Audio

8:22 AM."No ifs no buts" Boris Johnson says the UK will leave the European Union on October the 31st or earlier.

Speaking as Prime Minister in the House of Commons for the first time he promised the… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The daughter of an elderly woman who died at North Shore Hospital says her mother was poorly cared for and died a violent and traumatic death.

Eighty-three-year-old Aileen Aspden was admitted in… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.There is going to be plenty of meaty issues for National party members to chew over, when they will gather in Christchurch this weekend for this weekend's annual conference.

The conference comes with… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The All Blacks coach Steve Hansen isn't ruling out playing All Blacks skipper Kieran Read at blindside and Ardie Savea at number eight at the World Cup. Audio

7:54 AM.Whangārei District Council is the latest local body to formally sound the alarm over greenhouse gas emissions - by declaring a climate change emergency.

It's been warned that without urgent action… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.The Hamilton City Council says it is holding property owners to account for safety systems despite 200 of the city's buildings not having warrants of fitness.

These include many hospital buildings… Read more Audio