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6:45 AM.Power and water is still out in many parts of Fiji after Cyclone Josie passed through the country at the weekend. The category one storm flooded large parts of the western division on the main island… Read more Audio

6:38 AM.There are about 500 more children in state care than there were this time last year, bringing the total number above 6000 for the first time. It is a year since Oranga Tamariki replaced Child, Youth… Read more Audio

6:35 AM.A former manager at Middlemore Hospital has spoken out about what he calls the 'bloody nightmare' of trying to maintain failing buildings and critical services like electricity, gas and sewerage. Greg… Read more Audio

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

6:06 AM.A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Power failure latest in Middlemore's problems, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies at 81, More children in state care as struggle for caregivers, Warriors sale awaits greenlight from majority owner Audio

8:56 AM.We cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

8:48 AM.The Ministry for Primary Industries' investigation of how cow disease mycoplasma bovis arrived in New Zealand focused on three properties on Wednesday, which were raided by ministry officials. But as… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Investigators appear to be closing in on how the cattle disease mycoplasma bovis got in to the country. Three properties have been raided by the Ministry for Primary Industries which says that the… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Artificial intelligence has often been portrayed as a dangerous threat in sci-fi films, but a two-day event in Auckland is stepping away from fantasy and investigating the real life uses for this… Read more Audio

8:32 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:27 AM.New Zealand boxer Joseph Parker says it would just take one clean hit to get his opponent Anthony Joshua out of the ring. In three days the heavyweights will face off in front of 80,000 people in… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.New Zealand firefighters are using foams that most of Australia ditched years ago over environmental and health fears. This country is also using an old way of testing the foams that misses some nasty… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The government's handling of Russian spies in New Zealand is being described as a "fiasco". It's now considering slapping travel bans on some Russians, but won't join the more than 20 countries that… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:55 AM.Kaikoura Mayor Winston Gray says the opening of State Highway 1 to traffic both day and night from next month is the best news the tourist town has had in a long time. The road has been open only… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The lives of eight people have been saved in the first eight months of bowel screening in Hutt Valley and Wairarapa. These are the first results from the first areas to begin screening under a… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.Nurses at Middlemore Hospital want answers on whether the air they're breathing at work is safe. Air monitoring for asbestos is taking place twice a week in the Galbraith building's basement and once… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.He's 6'3" and full of muscle and come Sunday, 26-year-old heavyweight boxing champion Joseph Parker will step into the ring in Cardiff for the biggest fight of his career. Our reporter Clay Wilson is… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.Cricket Australia has revealed tampering cheat Cameron Bancroft used sandpaper, and not yellow tape as he claimed, to damage the ball in the recent test against South Africa. It also says the… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.The government is considering slapping travel bans on some Russians. It comes after the government was mocked for failing to follow the country's traditional allies in expelling Russian spies. New… Read more Audio