Morning Report

After months unsuccessfully trying to get a space in MIQ, an Auckland woman has decided to sail home home across the Pacific.

She and three other Kiwis are on a 40ft yacht taking a 2000 nautical mile… Read more Audio

The Whānau Ora commissioning agency is in the High Court today, fighting the Ministry of Health for data they say could ramp up the vaccination campaign for Māori.

The chief executive for the agency… Read more Audio

A Covid-19 modeller is asking the government to consider requiring people travelling into the South Island to first provide a negative Covid-19 test.

The top of the South Island's had a Labour… Read more Audio

More than a century after the huia was hunted to extinction, Dannevirke museum is hunting for the return of its own prized specimen of the bird.

A man convicted of the theft of the huia said in a… Read more Audio

Facebook is "unquestionably making hate worse".

That's the scathing claim from whistleblower Frances Haugen, who's been giving evidence to UK politicians working on the country's Online Safety Bill.

While some across the nation might have been relaxing at the beach yesterday, a team of Maori doctors and community leaders traversed South Auckand to encourage unvaccinated whanau.

With the star… Read more Audio

Auckland primary school principals are relieved they are not reopening their classrooms to more children today.

They say it is not worth risking people's health even though the ongoing lockdown is… Read more Audio

Immigration officers admit that for three years they've held onto the passport of a woman now stuck in Afghanistan fearing for her life.

The woman is appealing to the Government for help on… Read more Audio

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson is confident it is safe for senior students to return to school on Tuesday.

Robertson said it is understandable some students will be anxious about returning… Read more Audio

Auckland students who are heading back to school this morning, including year 13 Krish Patel, who is head boy at Howick College, and year 12 Rosie Risbrook, from Whangaparaoa College.

When Auckland… Read more Audio

Across Auckland this morning, almost 60,000 students are heading back through the school gates to classrooms for the first time in ten weeks.

Students from years 11, 12 and 13 are allowed back -… Read more Audio