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8:27 AM.A Māori law graduate from Hamilton has started teaching te Reo Māori lessons at a law firm in Invercargill in a push to see the language more commonly used by lawyers. Georgia Woodward says te Reo has… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Another deadline has passed for refugees on Manus Island to leave the detention centre there which was officially slated to close on October 31. But around 300 men are still refusing to leave the… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Kaikōura harbour is being re-opened, one year after the 7.8-magnitude quake lifted the seabed in and around the harbour more than a metre. It's been struggle of survival for many tourism operators… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Penny Betts owns Gecko Gears on Kaikōura's main street. She imports fair-trade clothing and other items from Nepal, Bali, and Thailand. When the quake struck she had had just had two huge shipments of… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Now more stories from those who lived through the Kaikoura earthquake a year ago today. Shirley Lang has lived in the Waiau area in the Hurunui District for 15 years. Her home on the Inland Road near… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.US President Donald Trump has returned to America from his Asia trip, with high praise for his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte. Mr Trump said he had a "great relationship" with the Filipino… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.United Future is to be consigned to the past. The Party's new Leader Damian Light has confirmed United Future will disband following the retirement of founder and former leader Peter Dunne and a… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.The National Party's support has suddenly become pivotal to the success of the rebranded Trans-Pacific Partnership. Labour's support partner, the Greens, will not be supporting the deal and Labour… Read more Audio

7:31 AM.Solo mothers on a benefit who don't name the father of their child won't have their welfare payments cut under the Labour-led Government. The Social Development Minister, Carmel Sepuloni, has… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.Fear of death and destruction in an earthquake has been supplanted in parts of Welllington by the fear of being ruined financially. A year on from the Kaikoura earthquake, owners of earthquake-prone… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.A ceremony is now underway in Kaikōura to commemorate the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake. RNZ's Logan Church is there, and describes the scene to us. Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

6:46 AM.Auckland's mayor says the benefits from hosting the 2021 Americas Cup regatta will be felt throughout the country, not just his city. It'll cost Auckland betwen $140-190 million to host the event and… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Apartment owners in Wellington say, a year on from the Kaikōura earthquake, many are facing financial ruin. There are 200 residential earthquake-prone buildings in the capital. One of the owners… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.Over the past few days RNZ has spoken with people in Kaikoura about their experiences of 2016's 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Audio

6:09 AM.As many reflect on last year's Kaikōura earthquake, some of the world's top earthquake scientists are using it as an indicator for the future. More than 100 experts from 20 countries have joined New… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.The best soils for New Zealand's wines are also some of the most shaky as Canterbury and Marlborough wine makers found out to their cost last November. Now the government's pouring $300,000 of funding… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Despite their twenty point victory over France in Paris on Saturday night (local time), the All Blacks were far from convicing for much of the second half. A brain fade by Sonny Bill Williams saw him… Read more Audio