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5:00 AM.Soaring temperatures, lockdown in a pandemic, a summer of riots and protests, a crazy election - and now raging wildfires. A kiwi in California details her drama-filled 2020.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.The Waiwera Hot Pools closed more than two years ago for refurbishment and never reopened. Everyone assumed they were dead, but a new plan is bubbling to the surface.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Hamilton is up for the prize of New Zealand's most beautiful city - and far from scoffing, one Auckland architecture expert says the crown would be well-deserved.   Read more Audio

5:00 AM.The 1pm Jacinda and Ashley show has exposed the way journalists operate - and it's not pretty. Should they modify their behaviour now it's televised?  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Avatar producer Jon Landau talks to Sharon Brettkelly about making block-buster sequels in New Zealand - far away from home, during a pandemic.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Debate around Otago University’s medical school makeup has raised the hackles of some students – so why do we have affirmative entry policies at our universities? Read more Audio

12:00 AM.Where does all that treaty settlement money go? We look at how one iwi is using it to lift the health and welfare of its people.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.The uproar over televising school sport, and the complicated mix of players clashing over who owns it.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.This pandemic has brought out the amateur share traders and a new app is helping them invest - or is it gamble? - on the stock market. Read more Audio

5:00 AM.The New Zealand company making the machines keeping Covid patients alive is cashing in big-time from the pandemic, but says it also feels huge responsibility.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.It's 10 years since the first big Christchurch earthquake - and if you'd just started school then you're now ending your decade of education amidst a global pandemic. We meet two teens for whom… Read more Audio

5:00 AM.The medical world is starting to look at some of the unintended consequences of lockdown - some of them positive, some more worrying.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Meet a developer who's trying to help solve the housing crisis by importing boxes from China.   Read more Audio

5:00 AM.The whole world is facing a pandemic recession - so what are the off-beat measures some governments are taking to stimulate their economies?  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.New Zealand is powering on towards a digital future, in the face of a new report that reveals unexpectedly high numbers of people who don't have access to internet services.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Political commentators often light up the comments section, but how much of what they have to say is valuable insight, and how much is clutter and noise?  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Just because New Zealand's leader is a woman doesn't mean all is fine for women in the workplace - in fact, in this pandemic, things have got significantly worse.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Councils are wary about signing up to the Three Waters programme, aimed at improving drinking water, wastewater and stormwater. We discuss the fishhooks.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.You can legally drive, fly a plane, have sex or own a gun at 16 - so why can't you vote? Well, there's a campaign underway aimed at changing that.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.As a second Covid wave hits the country we are gearing up - but some of that PPE gear including gloves and masks could have reached New Zealand via slave labour factories in Asia.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Our election date's been delayed for a month - but there's no guarantee we won't still be in lockdown on 17 October. How did Singapore manage to conduct its Covid election?  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.New Zealand scientists are playing a key role in genome testing being used trace coronavirus cases back to their sources. Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Dylan Reeve tracks down the source of the rumour that sparked vileness on the internet - and finds a young man full of regret and waiting for a call from police.  Read more Audio

5:00 AM.Christchurch's health services are under siege and the DHB's financial issues have seen vital management team members leave. What is going on? 

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5:00 AM.A lot of our problem gambling issues stem from pokie machines - but those same machines prop up a myriad of community groups. What's the solution? Read more Audio