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6:45 AM.After a two year hiatus, Laura Langman will finally play netball for the Silver Ferns again. Last year the midcourter was ruled ineligible for New Zealand because she was playing club netball in… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.The clock is ticking on whoever leaked Simon Bridges' travel expenses as a forensic expert is being brought in to identify the person responsible. The Speaker, Trevor Mallard, has made it clear the… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

6:19 AM.A Ngāruawahia resident with strong ties to the Kīngitanga says she can understand why a scathing letter was sent to the Māori King. King Tuheitia's former adviser, Tukoroirangi Morgan, penned the… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.Many remote villages in Papua New Guinea's Highlands region remain in desperate need of help nearly six months on from a major earthquake. February's magnitude 7.5 quake in Hela province, killed at… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.Brodie Retallick and Kieran Read return to the All Blacks starting lineup while Jack Goodhue gets the nod at centre for Saturday night's Rugby Championship opener against Australia in Sydney. Audio

6:00 AM.Police emergency call workers say they're coming to work even when they are ill because they are scared of being punished for taking sick leave, Teachers say more strikes are likely if their pay… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.A newly discovered painting by the renowned New Zealand artist Charles F Goldie has sold for almost four hundred thousand dollars. The portrait of Kapi Kapi, an Arawa Chieftainess, was painted in 1918… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Developers keen to build a new hotel in Whangarei are eyeing up council funding set aside for the arts. The Whangarei District Council has been budgeting for more than a decade for a new theatre. But… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Students and staff at the University of Waikato are calling a proposal to scrap the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies a "white-streaming" of Māori issues. More than 80 people gathered in a… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:28 AM.Legislation to properly enforce the animal tracking guidelines that were found to be hugely inadequate during the mycoplasma bovis response, is to be debated under urgency tonight and through… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Auckland's acting mayor Bill Cashmore is rejecting suggestions the market gardens of Pukekohe are at risk from further urban development. A report from Horticulture New Zealand says nearly a third of… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Community pressure has pushed officials into a backdown on blood testing for people caught up in the firefighting foam contamination in Manawatu. Not only will locals get easier access to testing for… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.A double whammy of natural changes in the earth's temperature and human-made climate change, means it's likely we'll continue to see more extreme heat until at least 2022. That's according to a new… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Teachers and principals are out on the streets this morning to push for a better deal from the Ministry of Education. Among the picketers are teacher Pat Swanson in central New Plymouth, and principal… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Ben Stokes is back in England's Test cricket team after being found not guilty of affray but he could face further sanctions from England bosses for his night out in Bristol. Audio

7:55 AM.Just days before the Kingitanga movement holds its annual coronation celebrations in Ngāruawahia King Tuheitia has found himself under an extraordinary attack from one of his former advisors. In a… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Business confidence surveys are painting a gloomy picture but the accounting software firm, Xero, says small businesses are not down in the dumps. Xero's managing director, Craig Hudson, says based on… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.England cricketer Ben Stokes will join the England squad for the third Test against India after he was found NOT guilty of affray by a Bristol jury. The New Zealand-born cricketer had been charged… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.The hunt for who leaked Simon Bridges' travel bill is in full swing - and Parliament's referee will today decide whether to ramp it up to a full-scale inquiry. That's what National's leader is calling… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Would you fork out almost 6 bucks for a lettuce? The horticulture industry says you might have to in the not too distant future. A new report is predicting fresh fruit and vegetables prices could jump… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.A man cried out to God as a 200-metre section of a vast motorway bridge collapses in the northwest Italian city of Genoa. Vehicles and debris fell 90 metres onto rail tracks and a warehouse when one… Read more Audio