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5:55 AM.As case numbers climb and people's movements and contacts are traced - businesses, workplaces and schools have been forced to close for deep cleans. On Tuesday Countdown New Lynn and St Dominic's… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.The Auckland August cluster continues to grow - with six new cases yesterday bringing the total to 171. 43 of those are connected to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship - of which 22 have now been… Read more Audio

5:47 AM.Put the needs of tamariki at the top of the agenda this election - that's the call from four leading children's organisations. Barnardos, Te Kahui Mana Ririki, Whanau Awhina Plunket and Save the… Read more Audio

5:41 AM.Pacific People do the bulk of unpaid work and volunteering in New Zealand, but are they getting the credit they deserve? A treasury report found Pasifika do up to 30 hours of unpaid work per week, but… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.It's the time of the week where we meet New Zealand's local leaders, This week we hear from the 'Guru of Paraparaumu' - the Mayor of Kapiti coast district K Gurunathan. Guru is Malaysian - Indian and… Read more Audio

5:07 AM.Joining us now from across the Tassie is our correspondent, former Alliance MP and broadcaster Pam Corkery. Prime Minister Scott Morrison famously signed a deal with Oxford University and the… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.New covid-19 cases linked to the Mt Roskill Church "mini-cluster" are still emerging - so how long will it take the cluster to close? Another case was identified late last night - a pupil at St… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.Parents and caregivers are being urged to keep their children off social media after footage of a man dying by suicide went viral on TikTok. The social media platform has been attempting to remove the… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.A woman involved in hiring the chief executive of the United Fire Brigades' Association says she tried to raise concerns about him and was brushed off. Bill Butzbach was stood down last week pending… Read more Audio

5:37 AM.Auckland secondary principals are relieved their students will get a further boost to their NCEA scores after the latest lockdown. Bonus credits were announced for all NCEA students after the first… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.We have our minister for Fruit and Veggies and now we are going to start taking a monthly look at Kai Moana. Keen fisherman Brett Sellers is Foodstuffs seafood operations manager and has been a… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.The son of a soldier in the Maori Battalion says he was blown away to learn his father never received his war medals. A list of 134 soldiers from the Battalion's C company has been published online… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.To the US where they are exactly 8 weeks out from their presidential election and Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden is still ahead in many polls - but - as Donald Trump proved in 2016, that… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.The Labour Party has promised to make Matariki a public holiday from 2022 if re-elected - in what would be the first new public holiday in nearly 50 years. Earlier this year nearly 35 thousand people… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.One of Kiwibank's Local Hero medal recipients has now been dropped as a client, and Kiwibank are closing her bank accounts. Long-time cannabis campaigner Rose Renton, who makes and sells medicinal… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.Border closures, physical distancing and number restrictions are putting a stop to concerts this year, leaving many fans disappointed. Ticketmaster's website is full of postponed, rescheduled and… Read more Audio

5:32 AM.The Attorney-General has pointed out numerous breaches of the Bill of Rights in the Government's new drug driving legislation. The law allows the police to conduct random roadside drug testing similar… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.If you're on the look out for a gorgeous high spec car with only a few k's on the clock, a new place in Morrinsville with an interesting history or a replacement bed for that digger-obsessed child in… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.Our UK correspondent Henry Riley talks with Indira about the surge in covid cases there with Health Secretary Matt Hancock laying some of the blame on affluent young people. Audio