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8:20 AM.It only reopened two months ago after the Kaikoura quake, but State Highway 1 to the north and south of the town is set to remain closed again until at least the middle of next week thanks to… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.Hundreds of eels have died, along with carp and flying insects, in the wake of a massive algal bloom at Lake Omapere near Kaikohe. Blue-green algae in the shallow lake erupted last Saturday, turning… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.New Zealand's 26-year-medal drought at the Winter Olympics is over thanks to two teenagers. Snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won a bronze medal in the women's big air competition, and Nico Porteous… Read more Audio

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

7:54 AM.Kupe, the great Polynesian navigator and explorer, as imagined by playwright Apirana Taylor, in one of the first shows of the 2018 New Zealand Festival in Wellington. It's also part of a week long… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The construction industry is struggling to attract skilled workers, prompting a big overseas recruitment campaign. That need for workers - from labourers to highly skilled engineers - has been well… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Barbara Kuriger is remaining the National Party's rural communities spokesperson despite her husband and son facing charges of animal cruelty. Oxbow Dairies, a company which Mrs Kuriger has shares in… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.It's understood a deal is close to being clinched to get the former American president Barack Obama to visit New Zealand next month. Audio

7:40 AM.An invasion of the brown marmorated stink bug - the pest discovered recently in three Japanese car shipments - would devastate New Zealand's fruit, vegetable and wine industries, destroying more than… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.It's been three days since Golden Bay was cut off due to slips on the only access road, and food and other supplies are having to be shipped and flown into the area. There is still no time frame for… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Nico Porteous is New Zealand's youngest Olympic medallist after winning bronze on Thursday in the half pipe. He speaks with Susie Ferguson about the win. Audio

7:20 AM.New Zealand won two Olympic medals in two hours on Thursday afternoon, breaking a 26 year drought. Snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won bronze in the inaugural women's Big Air event, becoming for… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.The main US gun lobby group, the National Rifle Association, has responded to the Florida high school massacre by denouncing what it calls socialist politicians who want to destroy freedoms granted to… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:47 AM.The High Court trial of a euthanasia advocate Susan Austen accused of helping another woman kill herself is entering its final stages with Justice Thomas due to sum up the case for the jury this… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.Snow Sports New Zealand is already eyeing greater success at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing after the success of teenagers Zoi Sadowski Synnott and Nico Porteous at the Winter Olympics. The… Read more Audio

6:17 AM.The New Zealand Festival opens tonight in Wellington with a performance of kapa haka, music and theatre on Wellington's waterfront The performance, A Waka Odyssey, has been inspired by the arrival of… Read more Audio

6:10 AM.Three days on from Cyclone Gita and locals are still making sense of what happened to them. Riwaka couple Katie and Pete Ferguson say the flood they've just been through is the worst in the eight… Read more Audio

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

6:00 AM.US gun debate surges as NRA reacts to Florida, Support for NZ's Olympic teen medallists 'overwhelming', 'If you work hard, anything's possible' - Nico Porteous, Kupe waka heads for spectacular NZ… Read more Audio

8:58 AM.Police are apologising after a cannabis spraying operation in the Coromandel went slightly awry. A helicopter was targeting parts of Kennedy Bay on Monday but when it landed on the beach, locals… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.A new category of cyclone - category six - may be needed as climate change makes storms more extreme. The only thing that stopped the strongest tropical cyclone on record - Cyclone Winston - being a… Read more Audio