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7:30 AM.Today marks the beginning of three-and-a-half weeks of NCEA and Scholarship exams for more than 146-thousand school students. The exams start on Thursday with Scholarship Drama, with further exams in… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.The New Zealand Super Fund has confirmed it's had dealings with the law firm at the centre of the Paradise Papers leak. It says it used law firm Appleby for advice on legal matters in Bermuda. Matt… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.A teacher has been censured for carrying a struggling child to a school principal's office. The Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal says in the incident last year, the teacher intervened several times to… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is on the world stage for the first time this weekend, when she joins leaders in the Asia-Pacific region to discuss trade and security. Ms Ardern leaves for APEC in… Read more Audio

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

6:43 AM.The Queenstown Lakes District council has voted to slash the number of days people living outside the town centre can rent out their homes on short-term platforms like Airbnb. The council says there's… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will attend her first annual gathering of leaders in the Asia Pacific region today, and securing a better free trade deal is firmly in her sights. Ms Ardern leaves… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.While President Trump is abroad sending a strong message to North Korea, voters back in the US are sending a very clear message to the President and the Republican party, which suffered tough losses… Read more Audio

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

6:00 AM.Ardern takes first step on world stage at APEC, Teacher's misconduct charge 'PC gone mad', Paradise Papers: Super Fund confirms link, NCEA exams begin, students struggle to turn phones off Audio

8:50 AM.Conservationists in the Far North are sounding the alarm over the expansion of the avocado industry - and its demands for water. Seventeen companies have applied to pump up to 2 million cubic metres a… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The lawyer for refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea will file an appeal after the Supreme Court rejected an application to restore power and water to the Manus Island detention centre. The… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.A professor of peace studies in Dunedin wants a weapon amnesty for the owners of military-style semi-automatic guns. New figures show 13,000 of these weapons are registered to owners in New Zealand… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Today's drop of stories from the Paradise Papers reveal how top Republican and Democratic political donors in the US make use of offshore financial structures. The International Consortium of… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Businesses across the country have been stung with hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines for exploiting staff and failing to keep proper employment records. The Labour Inspectorate says most of… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Asia experts are warning that thousands of preschoolers growing up speaking Asian languages need more support to ensure their valuable skills are not lost. A new report from the Asia New Zealand… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Agricultural experts think an unusual problem lies over the horizon for New Zealand: too many native birds. They acknowledge it sounds like a pleasant problem to have. But they warn it could have a… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Pukekohe commuters have been looking forward to a hi-tech, nonstop train service to Auckland starting in two to three years. But a promise made late in the election campaign by the National Party to… Read more Audio