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7:45 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:39 AM.New Zealand researchers analysing hundreds of ice cores from Antarctica's Roosevelt Island hope they will help pin down how long the Ross Ice Shelf may hold together at the current rate of climate… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.Computer industry analysts say Government departments could easily avoid further privacy breaches. Audio

7:28 AM.Farmers, conservationists and tangata whenua are sounding alarm bells over mining proposals near Whangarei. Audio

7:20 AM.Three district health boards have rejected accusations of bullying, mismanagement and a top-heavy leadership, made by a senior doctors' union. Audio

7:18 AM.The bodies of 2degrees chief executive Eric Hertz and his wife Kathy Hertz have been recovered from the ocean floor off the Raglan Coast , along with wreckage of their plane. Audio

7:12 AM.The Green Party co-leader, Dr Russel Norman, is in the Wellington studio and has been listening to that report from Liz Banas. Audio

7:07 AM.The Prime Minister is backtracking on suggestions New Zealand might join the US and Australia in defending South Korea if war broke out with North Korea. Audio

6:47 AM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

6:38 AM.The bodies of 2degrees chief executive Eric Hertz and his wife Kathy Hertz have been recovered from the ocean floor off the Raglan Coast , along with the wreckage of their plane. Audio

6:35 AM.The Prime Minister appears to distancing himself from his suggestion at the weekend that New Zealand could possibly join the United States and Australia in defending South Korea if war broke out with… Read more Audio

6:27 AM.A Maori representative to the United Nations says kaumatua should have the power to pass sentence in Marae Based youth courts; A High Court has ruled that an Auckland tribal body, Ngai Tai ki Tamaki… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:18 AM.The latest from the Pacific region. Audio

6:15 AM.Three district health boards have all denied there is bullying and mismanagement in their organisations. Audio

6:00 AM.Key distances himself from North Korea remarks, Dr Norman reacts Chinese visit, Police recover second body from crashed plane, DHBs hit back at accusations of bullying, Alarm over mining prospects… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

8:51 AM.A top New Zealand architect, who's spent decades working on Barcelona's famous Sagrada Familia cathedral, says he's disappointed with the designs for the new Christ Church cathedral. Audio

8:49 AM.The chair of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu says proposed reforms to freshwater management don't do enough to protect the taonga, or treasure, itself; One of several trustees ordered by the High Court to step… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.New Zealand is also looking to the other side of the Pacific for export markets. Audio

8:42 AM.The Prime Minister leaves for China today to meet its new leaders and lead New Zealand's biggest ever trade mission there. Audio

8:39 AM.The tiny Waikato town of Pokeno is set to become home to one of the first purposely-built Chinese milk powder plants in New Zealand. Audio

8:35 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:26 AM.A Government report into the depth of the housing shortage in Christchurch shows the number of rental properties has almost halved since the earthquakes. Audio