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8:15 AM.A Queenstown councillor says some residents are taking it upon themselves to monitor how long Airbnb guests are staying in neighbouring rentals. Yesterday the economic impact of the online… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.A Waikato psychologist says Māori face active resistance to their very presence in the psychology profession. Psychologist Michelle Levy said the profession did not train students to address Māori… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.MPs have been told there is no evidence the country's banks are ripping off customers like their Australian counterparts. The Financial Markets Authority and Reserve Bank appeared before a select… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The New Zealand under 20 rugby side leads Japan 38 nil at halftime in their opening world cup match in France. Audio

7:55 AM.Recycled materials are being stockpiled around the country while authorities struggle to work out what to do with it all. Last year, China stopped taking 24 different types of waste. A report out… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.An Australian immigration lawyer says the locking up of a New Zealand boy in an immigration centre is a new low for his country. The boy, aged under 18, is being held in a detention facility alongside… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Māori lawyers and academics say the Family Court is in crisis and should not be dealing with the care and protection of Maori children. The Government is set to review the Family Court because of huge… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.A clinical psychologist says police shouldn't be surprised when teenage offenders flee from them in cars at high speed. Last week a 15-year-old boy being chased by officers in Palmerston North crashed… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.Companies Budget Loans Limited and Evolution Finance, owned by Allan Hawkins and his son Wayne, have been fined $700,000 for what a judge called cynical and deliberate offending. Their companies… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.Housing New Zealand and the Housing Minister Phil Twyford say no compensation will be given to tenants who were evicted based on discredited methamphetamine testing. On Tuesday, a report by the Prime… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.It's been revealed Arkady Babchenko, a dissident Russian journalist, faked his own death with the help of Ukrainian police. He was reportedly shot twice in the back and reportedly he died in the… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.He was reportedly shot twice in the back and reportedly he died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. But then he walked into a press conference about his death, fit and well. It turns out Arkady… Read more Audio

7:11 AM.A Tauranga Hospital nurse committed suicide and left a note to his colleagues asking if they were happy now. He is one of two nurses who felt bullied at the hospital then killed themselves. A third… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The test future of Crusaders forward Pete Samu remains in limbo, as he still awaits clearance from the New Zealand Rugby Union to play for Australia. Audio

6:49 AM.Cigna becomes third biggest life insurer in NZ after buying ANZ's OnePath. Finance regulators find no bank misbehaviour, yet, but see room for improvement. A crop of company earning reports, and the… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Justice Minister Andrew Little says Housing New Zealand should apologise to tenants it threw out of their homes based on bogus meth testing. The Prime Minister's chief science adviser, Sir Peter… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.A boy is the latest New Zealander to be locked up in an Australian detention centre for an apparent breach of his visa. Australian authorities have refused to give RNZ more details, but it's… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.Tomorrow on the first of June, cows right around the country are shifted to new properties for winter grazing or new sharemilking contracts. Audio

6:16 AM.A senior lawyer says the Family Court is in crisis and should not be dealing with the care and protection of Māori children. The government is setting up a panel and an expert advisory group to review… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.A new report says New Zealand is in the grip of a recycling crisis. Last year China banned imports of various recyclable materials until the end of this year, and it's expected the ban will be… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has been blocked from picking Crusaders loose foward Pete Samu for the upcoming three-Test series against Ireland, but Cheika's kept a spot open for him if the green… Read more Audio

6:00 AM.Claims of widespread bullying at Tauranga hospital, Ukraine admits faking the death of a Russian dissident journalist in a bid to catch his would-be assassins, Can Housing New Zealand tenants expect… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.A study has found anti-money laundering rules are almost completely ineffective in stopping criminals. The findings from New Zealand political scientist, Ron Pol, show authorities globally recover… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The revival of US sitcom 'Roseanne' has abruptly come to an end after the show's controversial star made a racist remark on Twitter. The tweet compared former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett to an… Read more Audio