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10:30 AM.Heavy rain has lashed Auckland and Northland this morning- with ferries cancelled and early reports of power cuts.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Australian Kristy McGregor met her kiwi diary farmer husband in the Aussie outback, then moved to Horowhenua when he took over running the family farm. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Ed White brings the latest on the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, and the response. Plus reaction across Asia to the new US tariffs. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.An online freight moving service is hoping it can fill up lorries that at the moment are making trips empty or only partly filled. Industry estimates are that 9 out of 20 heavy transport vehicles on… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Health and safety experts say government announcements this week have fixed 'non issues' and fail to address what most needs to be done in the area.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The battle over a controversial proposal to fold Auckland University's 140-year-old law school in with its business faculty has taken another turn - with the University canning a deciding vote on… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Primary teacher and co-founder of a mental health venture, Alice Peel, says it's ok for children to feel low from time to time. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Dean Bedford reviews The Futures of Democracy, Law and Government Edited by Mark Hickford, Matthew S R Palmer published by Te Herenga Waka University Press Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Tauranga based Local Democracy Reporter Alisha Evans with news from the region. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.A review released this morning five years into a mental health support programme shows it is over 100,000 people off its target. Read more Audio

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It's a decade since a New Zealand boat started in the round the world Ocean Race - Kathryn meets the ambitious sailors who want to change that in 2027. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Dan brings UK reaction to President Trump's tariff announcement this morning.

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9:35 AM.For years he was part of the driving force behind the wildly popular motoring show Top Gear - now James May has a new stage show about the world's greatest explorers. Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Donald Trump unveils details of his global tariff plan - so called "Liberation Day" - in a speech from the Rose Garden of the White House. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.New research from the think tank, the New Zealand Initiative, is pushing for more investment in GP's to save spending at hospital level. Read more Audio

11:45 AM."Don't use your back like a crane"...went the public health messaging in the 80s. It was aimed at making us all think about how we were lifting - from the legs, not the back.  Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Amid a number of earthquakes over the past week - including the devastation in Myanmar - the release of best-selling novelist Jenny Pattrick's latest work seems particularly prescient. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Fifty years ago David Bowie's ninth studio album, Young Americans, hit number 3 on the NZ album chart while the title track reached number 1 on the singles chart. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Tom updates Kathryn on the latest issues in Wellington including the controversy surrounding Wellington Water, the Crown observer's latest report, the council's proposed plan to charge commercial… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Laura Caygill reviews The Confidence Woman by Sophie Quick published by Allen & Unwin Read more Audio

10:05 AM.When Pulitzer Prize winning Australian author Geraldine Brooks' husband Tony Horwitz died suddenly - she had no time to grieve - between supporting their two sons, organising the funeral, dealing with… Read more Audio