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Auckland businesses are gearing up to reap the benefits of Auckland City Rail Link, which officially opens on Sunday. The $5.5 billion project has taken 10 years to build, and caused significant disruption for businesses along the route. Northern Line Bar and Social, on the corner of Beresford Square and Pitt St, has seen the lows and is now hoping to see the highs. Owner Craig Wright spoke to Ing...

An Edwardian mansion could be on its way to demolition in Christchurch, unless someone is willing to take it off a local developer's hands. The sweetener? You can have the house for free. The catch? You have to be able to move the four-bedroom, 320 metre-square structure. M Group Properties director of operations, Sean McCrory spoke to John Campbell.

An early morning sports news update.

The latest market updates and news from RNZ's business team.

Tomorrow marks 25 years since the September 11 attacks on the United States. New Zealand journalist Lauren Quaintance was reporting from within the police cordon that day. Lauren spoke to John Campbell.

A pensioner whose welfare payments were wrongly suspended says he has no confidence it won't happen again. The social development ministry has admitted it got it wrong after a review found more than 30,000 payments were incorrectly stopped. Political reporter Lauren Crimp reports.

The New Zealand pork industry says current labelling frequently makes imported pork look like a local product, with extremely small labelling hidden on the back. Harris Farms is among a small handful of New Zealand brands that only sells bacon and ham made from free-farmed, locally-grown pigs. Its sales and marketing manager Leon Powell spoke to John Campbell.

Police are continuing to investigate the suspected theft of digital files from a company running clinical trials. Hackers reportedly stole the data from Dunedin-based ZenTech and published some of the files online. The private company works with Health NZ, but the government agency says its systems are unaffected. ZenTech says it has brought in experts to assess the nature and scope of the attack....

An early morning update from RNZ's business team.

At least 20,000 tamariki have a parent in prison. According to Treasury analysis of Stats New Zealand data, without the right support, they're 10 times more likely to end up in the justice system themselves. In a New Zealand first, charity Pillars Ka Pou Whakahou will be piloting a new support role with three whanau navigators at the Manukau District Court. The five-year pilot will see these navig...

The first-ever midterm Republican convention is continuing in Texas, with Vice President JD Vance expected to make a keynote speech today. It follows an extraordinary promise from US President Donald Trump yesterday - he has vowed to pay every American adult $5,000 if his party wins the November elections. Correspondent Jagruti Dave spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss from Washington.

A slink skin factory in Southland is causing a stink with the community meanwhile a conservation project is turning marginal farmland or difficult-to-farm areas into a game hunting paradise. Rural News on Morning Report with Gianina Schwanecke.

An early morning sports news update.

The City Rail Link is set to finally open this weekend, hailed as a game changer for transport in the city, and eagerly anticipated by local businesses who've faced a decade of disruption. But the story of the CRL goes back not just a decade, but over a century. Matthew Theunissen reports.

Catch up with the latest headlines from around the world with RNZ's Alice Wilkins.

Self-driving taxis have hit the streets of London, and a New Zealander has made it happen. Alex Kendall co-founded Wayve in 2017 and as of last week 15 of its autonomous vehicles have been available to book on Uber in London. Kendall spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Chris Bishop responds to fast-track pushback from councils; Lifeline boss responds to mental health services review; Lifeline boss responds to mental health services review; Mandy Molloy on police apology over daughter Rachel's death; Deva Mahal discusses Silver Scroll nomination

Everyone's got something at home that needs repairs, a shirt with a button loose, maybe a bike tyre that's blown. From now until September 27, Repair Festival Aotearoa is hosting more than 50 repair events and workshops across the motu. These are run by local volunteer fixers, craftspeople, and trade experts - and people can come on in and drop off their items that need a bit of mending. Repair Ne...

Preparations are underway at Wellington's TSB Arena for the capital's annual World of Wearable Art show. More than a hundred costumes will compete on the seventeenth of September amid live music and dance performances. Anya Fielding reports from backstage.

The shortlist for the country's most prestigious songwriting award, the APRA Silver Scroll, was revealed this morning. One of the nominees, Deva Mahal spoke to John Campbell.

An update on what's happening in the sports world with Nathan Rarere.

Business update for 10 September 2026.

Interest rates are rising again. But if you're a borrower looking to take out a new loan or refix an existing one, how can you know what the right term is to choose? Money correspondent Susan Edmunds spoke to John Campbell.

A new $600 million wind farm that can generate enough to power close to 100,000 homes has officially opened. The Kaiwera Downs Wind Farm near Gore was completed over two stages, bringing the total number of wind turbines to 46. Tess Brunton has more.

Auckland University researchers have found AI generated citations in academic papers are slipping through the cracks. A new study looked at more than 3000 peer reviewed recently published papers and found 69 had fake references hallucinated by AI. Auckland University senior computer science lecturer and one of the paper's authors Ulrich Speidel spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.