Morning Report

A 17-year-old from Dunedin has become New Zealand's strongest hope in the pool at the Olympics, after making the final of the women's 400-metres freestyle.

Erika Fairweather, who is the youngest New… Read more Audio

Dates and locations for the three Bledisloe Cup rugby tests remain up in the air because of trans-Tasman Covid-19 travel restrictions.

Reports in Australia say the Wallabies are targeting a flight to… Read more Audio

Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters took to the streets in violent clashes with police across Australia during the weekend.

Police have issued more than 500 fines, with most relating to… Read more Audio

Health authorities are hoping more people will turn up in Taranaki today for a Covid-19 test.

Testing stations are due to open in the next hour. Extra testing sites have been set up after traces of… Read more Audio

Some semblance of normality is returning to Westport today as schools ready to reopen.

The area's only secondary school, Buller High School, was among the properties affected by floodwater.

Staff… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

Several leading opposition politicians in Fiji have been arrested after their criticism of government moves to amend a land bill.

The National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad, Sodelpa… Read more Audio

RNZ analysis estimates that 20 percent of New Zealanders in group 3 nationwide have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Just 12 percent of group 3 have been fully inoculated.

Corin… Read more Audio

The Children's Commissioner wants the use of restraint chairs to be phased out as soon as possible.

Between 2015 and 2020 Police strapped 38 young people into the chairs - the youngest just 13 years… Read more Audio

The clock is ticking with just five days left for Kiwis to get on a quarantine-free flight back home from Australia.

Unless travelling from New South Wales - where the Covid-19 outbreak is at its… Read more Audio