Morning Report

While many mayors support the new Housing Supply Bill, some say it won't work without better infrastructure funding.

National and Labour have joined forces to design new housing density rules, which… Read more Audio

Skill shortages, limited infrastructure, and rampant material costs are stopping houses being built and an incoming law change won't fix that.

That's the take of Auckland city's planning committee… Read more Audio

A Covid-19 modeller says daily numbers could top out at around 150,200 cases a day by the middle of November, but New Zealand is also risking a New South Wales-style blowout.

The country hit a new… Read more Audio

National Party leader Judith Collins says her party would end lockdowns when vaccinations reached between 85 and 90 percent or on 1 December, whichever comes first.

Currently 67 percent of the… Read more Audio

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says people should prepare themselves for increasing numbers of daily cases.

On Tuesday the number of community cases reached a pandemic daily high for New… Read more Audio

Some Auckland secondary school principals want students back in the classroom next Tuesday.

Auckland schools have been shut for nine weeks because of the delta outbreak.

Education Minister Chris… Read more Audio

While many businesses in Auckland are struggling badly in the tenth week of lockdown - its not all doom and gloom .

With not much else to do, Aucklanders are turning to local takeaways, and home… Read more Audio

Senior secondary students are just weeks out from exam leave before final exams begin on 20 November - but Aucklanders are still in lockdown, and waiting to learn what the government's latest advice… Read more Audio

The Mayors of some of the country's largest cities have been caught off guard by the Government's housing density announcement.

National and the government have teamed-up to slash red tape by August… Read more Audio