Morning Report

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Trade Minister Damien O'Connor were in Brussels last night to sign the New Zealand-EU Free Trade Agreement.

It's a substantial deal. The EU is one of New Zealand's… Read more Audio

A year after the breakthrough agreement on a free trade deal with the European Union, pen has finally been put to paper with its signing overnight.

The deal is projected to increase New Zealand… Read more Audio

Listen to our weekly political panel. This week we're joined by RNZ's deputy political editor, Craig McCulloch, and Newsroom political editor Jo Moir. Read more Audio

England dismissed Australia for 263 runs on the first day of the third test at Headingly in Leeds overnight, in what was an action-packed day of cricket.

Mitchell Marsh managed the only score of note… Read more Audio

It has been 50 years since the HMNZS Otago and HMNZS Canterbury sailed to the Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Sailors on both vessels witnessed… Read more Audio

Some Hawke's Bay residents whose homes were inundated by rivers of silt during Cyclone Gabrielle fear the future of their properties will depend on the size of cash-strapped councils' bank accounts.

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