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7:07 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:59 AM.The Overseas Investment Office has approved the sale of Vector Gas to the global infrastructure asset manager, First State Funds, for close to a billion dollars. Audio

6:57 AM.Wall Street is firmer, modestly so. Audio

6:56 AM.The national housing market remains in a buoyant mood despite a slight slowing in price growth in some areas, according to the latest look at prices from Quotable Value. Audio

6:54 AM.An asset manager says New Zealand's comparatively high interest rates are still a winner with overseas investors and that's likely to be the case for some time. Audio

6:52 AM.A banking expert says the sale price for the 45 percent stake in New Zealand Post's Kiwi Group is too low and values the assets below a realistic market price. Audio

6:50 AM.The surprise move by the Superannuation Fund and Accident Compensation Corporation to take respective 25 and 20 percent stakes in Kiwibank is said to fit those entities long term investment… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.The ACT Party says the Government is refusing to properly sell off Kiwibank because it is scared of the political backlash. Audio

6:44 AM.RSAs will be able to serve people a tot of rum with their bacon and eggs this Anzac day without an expensive licence after a member's bill was unanimously passed. Audio

6:41 AM.For the latest, we're joined by forecaster Misaeli Funaki at the Fiji Meteorological Service. Audio

6:39 AM.Heavy rain has continued in Fiji overnight but Tropical Cyclone Zena, which locals feared would bring devastation, has changed course away from the country. Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

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

6:14 AM.Builders are warning costs could go up and house builds be delayed now a second big player, Steel and Tube, has pulled its seismic reinforcing mesh from the market. Audio

6:09 AM.Tropical Cyclone Zena has battered Fiji overnight. Heavy rain and thunderstorms continued over much of the country and winds gusting up to 170 kilometres an hour were recorded. Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Thousands shelter from floods in Fiji. Kiwibank could have its credit rating downgraded without New Zealand Post as its guarantor. We'll talk to the finance Minister, Bill English and Inland Revenue… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Wellington City Council's bus fare gamble has failed to attract the Christmas shoppers it hoped for. The council set aside two hundred thousand dollars to subsidise bus fares for a month, to try to… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.The relationship between Maori and the Government is under the microscope by Canadian officials keen to improve their own race relations. Te Manu Korihi reporter Leigh Marama McLachlan caught up with… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.New Plymouth's mayor is defending a new deal allowing leasees to freehold the land under their homes, which a leaseholders' representative says is racist. Andrew Judd is the Mayor of the New Plymouth… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.One of the country's largest house relocation companies says hundreds of homes demolished in Christchurch's red zone could have been saved. Tom Furley reports. Audio

8:40 AM.Australia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appears poised for a tilt at the job of UN Secretary-General too. Pamela Williams is an investigative journalist with The Australian, based in Sydney. Audio

8:36 AM.Experts on international relations say Helen Clark has a good chance of becoming the ninth Secretary General of the United Nations. Audio

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

8:29 AM.An amateur photographer was in the right place at the right time when a meteor lit up the sky across the country last night. Audio