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6:43 AM.Scott Dixon has crashed out of the Indianapolis 500, the biggest motor race in the United States. Steve Simpson from WIBC Morning News in Indianapolis joins Morning Report for the latest race action. Audio

6:41 AM.Winter has officially arrived, with a southerly front hitting the South Island last night. Queenstown landed its first big snowfall of the year, with 15 centimetres falling in Arrowtown, and up to… Read more Audio

6:26 AM.Any company who leases land from a Wellington iwi could be compelled to employ a number of descendants; The former Labour MP, Shane Jones, has conceded there were times when he put his party before… Read more Audio

6:24 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:21 AM.The Immigration minister says if people smugglers transport asylum seekers from Indonesia as far as New Zealand, they would likely be detained in prisons or processed off shore. Audio

6:17 AM.The latest from the Pacific region. Audio

6:10 AM.The Labour Party Leader, David Cunliffe, says that when the nation goes to the polls this year it will be a 'knife-edge' election. That's despite the National Party opening up at least a 20-point gap… Read more Audio

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

6:00 AM.Police looking for clues in Auckland woman's disappearance; Winter arrives, snow across the South Island; Road closures follow bad weather; Are the left running out of time?; Taranaki primary school… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh Audio

8:51 AM.New Zealand chefs have scooped a number of awards at the cookbook world's version of the Oscars. Audio

8:48 AM.The number of deaths caused by hot and dangerous working conditions both here and overseas is being tackled by a team of researchers in Nelson. Audio

8:46 AM.A Taranaki Maori language advocate has doubts about representation on the government's new Maori language body; The auditor-general is calling on district health boards to provide better reporting on… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.War has broken out in Hawke's Bay - but the bullets being fired are blanks. Several hundred Defence Force personnel are conducting war-games in different parts of the region as part of an… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.The number of Maori and Pasifika students studying medicine at the University of Auckland has increased by about 40 percent from five years ago and thanks to new recruitment strategies it's set to… Read more Audio

8:33 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:28 AM.Suicide Prevention Information New Zealand, which is run by the Mental Health Foundation, says it's disappointed the government appears to be only implementing half the commission's recommendations. Audio

8:25 AM.Media organisations will be allowed to report more freely on suicide under proposed law changes. Audio

8:21 AM.The Waitangi Tribunal has agreed to consider applications that could stall the Ngapuhi Treaty settlement. Audio

8:18 AM.The Prime Minister is warning MPs to behave following what he describes as a nasty streak running through Parliament. Audio

8:11 AM.New Zealand Cricket is to introduce anti-corruption officers into the domestic game next year in an attempt to stop betting cheats. Audio

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

7:56 AM.Nepal has officially named one of it's newly opened Himalayan peaks, near Mount Everest after the late Sir Edmund Hillary. Audio

7:52 AM.A local fisheries expert says flocks of oystercatchers are devastating the toheroa shell fish beds on the west coast, south of Dargaville. Audio

7:47 AM.Ancient DNA from the bones of the biggest bird ever to exist has turned the evolutionary history of New Zealand's most iconic bird on its head. Audio