Morning Report

After Sunday's four-wicket loss to hosts India in the Cricket World Cup, the Black Caps face Australia this Saturday.

And with South Africa and Sri Lanka also still to play, former Black Cap Ronnie… Read more Audio

The All Blacks pack have improved dramatically from last year and even from the start of the World Cup, with the players crediting forwards coach Jason Ryan for their lift in performance.

They'll… Read more Audio

National Party leader Christopher Luxon says he is getting daily briefings on the growing conflict in Israel.

That's while government formation talks continue with his party talking separately to ACT… Read more Audio

The Chief Ombudsman says some local councils have been holding closed-door meetings to protect councillors from reasonable scrutiny.

Judge Peter Boshier has reported back on his review of eight… Read more Audio

The country's largest bank, ANZ, is lifting its mortgage and deposit rates from today by as much as thirty basis points.

ANZ says global markets are expecting inflation to remain a problem, hence the… Read more Audio

A packed court in Christchurch has seen harrowing footage of the 2019 mosque attacks during an emotional first day of inquest into the killings.

Described as one of Aotearoa's darkest days, 51 people… Read more Audio

Business owners in Auckland's city centre say anti-social behaviour has gotten out of control and they want rough sleepers and those drinking and drug dealing on the streets to be trespassed and moved… Read more Audio

Tropical Cyclone Lola is the strongest, earliest storm ever observed in the south eastern Pacific.

It peaked at a Category Five yesterday, and is now closing in on Vanuatu as a Category Four.

Niwa… Read more Audio

Thousands are hunkered down in Vanuatu this morning amid a massive storm.

The now category four Cyclone Lola is currently passing over the eastern Pentecost Island, while residents in other areas… Read more Audio

The Chief Ombudsman is reminding local councils official information should be available to the public, unless there's good reason to withhold it... not the other way around.

It follows years of… Read more Audio