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7:18 AM.Authorities remain stumped by a mystery vapour that left children sick at a Wairarapa school on Friday and prompted a full scale response from emergency services. Police, fire, ambulance, the Red… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.The Marist Fathers have admitted to "criminal" child sex abuse by a priest who led one of their top secondary schools. But decades on they still won't release the file on Francis Durning, rector of St… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.The United Nations General Assembly is about to kick off in New York with the city going into lockdown for the event. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrived in Manhattan yesterday for a week of… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.A punnet of Australian strawberries contaminated with needles has been found in Auckland yesterday in the first such reported case here. The Primary Industries Minister, Damien O'Connor, says it's… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The American golfer Tiger Woods has made an auspicious start to his final round at the Tour Championship in Atlanta, as he chases his first victory in five years. Audio

6:49 AM.AMP Capital's chief economist Bevan Graham expects RBNZ to play straight bat at this week's cash rate review. Confidence in the residential property market falls. How money markets will open the week.

6:46 AM.Ngapuhi descendants living in Australia don't want to miss out on any settlement deal with the Crown. About 25,000 Ngapuhi live across the ditch and the Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little met… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.Now to the midterm elections in the US and the strange story of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar. Gosar is a Republican from the party's most conservative wing. He is standing for re-election in… Read more Audio

6:39 AM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has joined about 140 world leaders in New York for the weeklong United Nations General Assembly. A big focus of the week will be on US President DonaldTrump, who's… 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

6:18 AM.Two reservoirs supplying water to Aucklanders have been temporarily shut off after an aerial 1080 operation. The Council dropped toxic bait pellets across a 16,000-hectare block in the Hunua ranges… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.A Wairarapa primary school is re-opening after a mysterious vapour cloud sparked a full scale emergency on Friday. The foul-smelling vapour made many pupils of Carterton's South End Primary ill with… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.The Marists have admitted further historical child sex abuse at St Patrick's College in Upper Hutt. RNZ has obtained a report that notes at least three complaints against the late Father Francis… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The American golfer Tiger Woods is one round away from his first victory in five years, and the former world number one is relishing the feeling. Audio

6:00 AM.Needles in Auckland strawberries 'sick' - Agriculture Minister, NYC in lockdown for UN general assembly, Priest's sexual abuse at Upper Hutt school admitted, Authorities stumped by vapour that left… 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

8:53 AM.The Prime Minister has cleared the decks before her trip to the United Nations next week. Jacinda Ardern leaves tomorrow for New York for the annual UN leader's week. Yesterday she removed Meka… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.Auckland and the northern region's hospitals have had to temporarily quake-proof their data centres after a warning they weren't up to scratch. Meanwhile, Christchurch Hospital has not properly… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.The suspension of Russia's anti-doping agency has been lifted by the World Anti-Doping Agency's executive committee ended a three-year-suspension which followed a major doping scandal. The agency was… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Some Auckland dairy owners would back a ban on being allowed to sell tobacco, saying it could reduce the risk of being robbed. Early findings from a Regional Public Health survey show others would not… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Auckland Council is rejecting claims a new online voting system will be dangerous for New Zealanders. An Australian IT expert told Morning Report yesterday New Zealand could face widespread electoral… Read more Audio

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

8:26 AM.Private landlords who followed the now-discredited meth testing regime say they'll consider a class law suit if they don't get government compensation. Hundreds of state housing tenants are to be… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.The government has edged closer to a capital gains tax with the release of the interim report of the Tax Working Group on Thursday. Joining Guyon Espiner to discuss the report are Bernard Hickey, a… Read more Audio