Midday Report Podcast Options

12:20 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

12:16 PM.The government's first home buyer grant for new houses is being squeezed by the rising cost of building materials. The cost of bricks, timber and steel is steadily rising, with price increases of up… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.There's been excitement and anxiety among both kids and their parents, as hundreds-of-thousands of students returned to school today. But 10km south of the Bombay Hills, the Mangatawhiri School… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.The nurses' organisation is concerned about hospital visitor rules in Auckland, which are allowing hundreds of people to visit patients every day during Alert Level Four. It says hospital staff are… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Frustration over hospital visitor numbers and first home buyers find houses further out reach Audio

12:49 PM.A few days ago a once-powerful Catholic cardinal pled not guilty to child sexual abuse charges in a Massachusetts court.

This is Theodore McCarrick, was defrocked by the Vatican two years ago.

This… Read more Audio

12:48 PM.Amohia ake te ora o te iwi - ka puta ki te whai ao - the health and well being of people is paramount - is the motto for Manurewa Marae in South Auckland.

The Whanau Ora provider has been rallying to… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.Middlemore hospital has added abdominal pain to its list of symptoms when staff screen patients for Covid-19.

Four wards are closed at the Auckland hospital and nearly 30 staff have been stood down… Read more Audio

12:35 PM. $17 million has been injected into reducing the environmental footprint of beef cattle.

Rural reporter Sally Murphy has te pūrongo taiwhenua. Read more Audio

12:20 PM.Synlait workers are facing potential job cuts.

Business Editor Gyles Beckford has te pūrongo pakihi. Read more Audio

12:18 PM.Most of the country is back in Covid Alert Level 2 today, with many businesses outside of Auckland able to reopen, and workers allowed to return to their offices, as long as distancing and mask… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.Middlemore hospital is defending the hospital's front door screening process, after a patient that later tested positive for Covid-19 was admitted to their general ward.

Four wards are closed… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.New Zealand Post and the MetService are among at least five organisations that a computer security expert says are almost certainly the target of another coordinated cyber attack.

ANZ Bank and Kiwi… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Multpile websites have been brought offline by what a computer security expert describes as a probable cyber attack, Middlemore hospital is defending its Covid screening processes.

Nicola Wright has… Read more Audio

12:52 PM.New Caledonia will go into a two-week lockdown in just a few minutes, that is at the top of the hour, after the detection of three new Covid-19 cases in the community. The French territory had been… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.It is Mahuru Māori - the month long reo-Māori challenge. This year's month is in line with the Maramataka - Māori Calendar - with the new moon starting today or Whiro. Mahuru Māori was started by… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.A record amount will be invested in Transport Projects over the next three years through Waka Kotahi's National Land Transport Programme. The total $24.3 billion is a 44 percent increase on the… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

12:26 PM.An 18-year-old British qualifier has won through to the quarterfinals of the US tennis Open in New York. Audio

12:20 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

12:17 PM.Builders are refusing to offer fixed prices due to the escalating cost of construction materials - which are running out. Mortgage brokers say banks favour fixed price builds, and getting a loan could… Read more Audio

12:13 PM.Rampant house price growth is dividing the country into two New Zealands: those who own homes and those who don't. That's according to new research from Consumer NZ, which found three out of five… Read more Audio