Morning Report

Parents are under pressure this week with about 800,000 children home from school and a further 200,000 shut out of early learning.

Harriet Dyer has three children.

She told education correspondent… Read more Audio

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken opening in New Zealand, in Auckland's Royal Oak, on 20 August 1971.

KFC, as it's now known, was followed by Pizza Hut in September… Read more Audio

Military personnel have now left New Zealand to help with evacuation efforts from Afghanistan.

Nobody will follow their progress with greater feeling than Tina Grant, whose husband, Corporal Doug… Read more Audio

Lockdown has come at one of the worst possible times for plant nurseries.

The businesses should be busy delivering late winter planting crop to clients around the country, now there's a risk that… Read more Audio

New South Wales is "learning to live" with the Delta strain, the state's Premier said, as she confirmed yesterday another record for daily Covid-19 cases.

The raging crisis there, forming the basis… Read more Audio

It's shaping up to be another big day at testing centres in Auckland this morning.

Guyon Espiner spoke to Jean Bell, who was at the testing station in New Lynn. Read more Audio

Dairies are frustrated new Covid-19 provisions for supermarket workers, like vaccine priority and Police support, aren't being extended to smaller grocers.

Sunny Kaushal, chair of the Dairy and… Read more Audio

Cabinet has agreed to make the Pfizer vaccine available for 12-15 year olds from 1 September.

This after Medsafe - following the lead of many of its overseas counterparts - gave a provisional… Read more Audio

New Zealanders find out today if the Covid-19 lockdown is going to be extended.

A three-day alert level four is set to end tonight for everyone outside Auckland and Coromandel.

So far there are 21… Read more Audio