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

6:15 AM.A New Zealand expert in the development of new anti-cancer medicines says world drug prices are far too high and the system is "broke". Audio

6:09 AM.Another influential day in the race to the White House has seen Donald Trump maintain his dominance in the Republican race but Ted Cruz firmly underlined his position as his main rival. Audio

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

6:00 AM.New high-tech video of the moment a balcony collapsed at a Dunedin student concert show has been released to RNZ. An independent report has slated the NCEA's literacy and numeracy requirements, saying… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh Audio

8:50 AM.While most of the nation's mastheads are losing readers, a few daily newspapers are bucking the trend. The editor of the Wanganui Chronicle is Mark Dawson. Audio

8:46 AM.The drunken Australia Day antics of a Sydney Roosters player have scored him the heaviest fine in Australian rugby league history. Audio

8:43 AM.The National Rugby League competition is underway. After finishing a disappointing 13th placing in last year's comeptition, there's a lot of expectation on the Warriors to make the playoffs this year… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.Who would be a better President from New Zealand's point of view? Our political editor Jane Patterson reports. Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:24 AM.The veteran mountain guide who escaped a fatal icefall that killed three overseas climbers on Aoraki Mt Cook says the conditions that day were too bad for him to continue. Dave McKinley was the last… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Damage assessors are estimating that about half of Fiji's homes will need to be rebuilt. A ship carrying aid and damage assessment teams around the remote Lau island group that was heavily hit by… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.A number of young Africans say they are being unfairly treated by a racist justice system. Their accounts are part of a report put out by the Auckland University of Technology's Social Sciences… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Tributes are flowing in from all around the world for cricketing legend, Martin Crowe who died yesterday, aged 53, after a long battle with cancer. Tiana Barns looks back at the life of the batting… Read more Audio

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

7:55 AM.Standing Room Only's Lynn Freeman joins the show to talk about the New Zealand Festival. Audio

7:50 AM.A group of Hawke's Bay regional councillors say the 600-million Ruataniwha water storage project is a ratepayers nightmare that can only be stopped at the ballot box. Audio

7:48 AM.MPs are accusing the Corrections Minister of being overly controlling. Judith Collins has sent a letter to all MPs asking them to go through her office before visiting prisons and to give a reasonable… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.A woman in New Zealand has tested positive for Zika, without having visited an affected country. Auckland University's Dr Siouxsie Wiles is with me in the studio joins Morning Report. Audio

7:35 AM.Auckland's criminal underworld and the identity of the kidnappers of a woman who died trying to escape them remain the focus of the police homicide investigation. Murielle Baker reports. Audio

7:29 AM.Sarabjit Singh, the liquor store owner who was stabbed in the back outside his own store says he's too scared to go back to work. He spoke with Kim Baker Wilson from his hospital bed. Audio

7:24 AM.The journalist and author Joseph Romanos wrote the book Tortured Genius about Crowe in 1995 and went on to help edit Crowe's own book Raw in 2013. Audio

7:20 AM.A close friend of Martin Crowe's has described the cricketing great as a very obsessive cricket player, always striving for perfect. Sir Richard Hadlee says Martin Crowe's death wasn't unexpected but… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Young Africans say they've been racially profiled, harrassed and in some instances, physically beaten by police. Mohamed Hassan reports. Audio