First Up

Squeezing buns in Japan can get you in trouble with the law - Chris Gilbert has the story Audio

Turning the Takapuna Golf course into a wetland is the answer to flooding in the Wairau valley according to the council - Cr Richard Hills explains the proposed change. Audio

Katherine Firkin checks in with the latest from the USA and Canada Audio

Summer fruit is finishing - so GET IN WHILE YOU CAN says associate Minister of Fruit and Veggies Tony Teau Audio

Russia has pounded Ukraine over the weekend - Anita Purcell-Sjölund reports from the relative safety of Sweden Audio

What do you do with your dead pet? On Auckland's North Shore, you can take them to a pet cemetery - Mahvash Ikram has the story. Audio

Who's in charge of Doge? US correspondent Bevan Hurley reports. Audio

They're either $11 per kg - or free - it's Feijoa season, Tony Teau tells us more - it's also our Fruit of the Week! Audio

As Alfred hovers off the Queensland coast, Pam Corkery hunkers down, but raises her head for this morning's report from Brisbane. Audio

Carmel Sepuloni talks the week in politics from Labour's perspective Audio

Northland farmer Claire Ganantchian is riding her horse 30km to challenge the wording of an animal bylaw involving horse manure. Audio

Taupo reporter Dan Hutchinson has all the news from the central North Island Audio