Morning Report

A Housing First provider says rapidly rising rents are making working people homeless, because they cannot afford rapidly rising rents, and do not qualify for government help. Nearly 10,000 Emergency… Read more Audio

A Whanau Ora provider says rapidly rising rents are driving families out of private homes and into emergency housing at an alarming rate. The number of emergency housing grants issued from the… Read more Audio

A world-record attempt is underway in Gore to shear the most lambs in nine hours.

24-year-old Megan Whitehead is attempting to beat the current record of 648, which was set by Emily Welch in 2007.

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Dunedin City Council has closed a public road so a sea lion can safely reach the ocean to get food for her new born pup. Hiriwa, the 150 kilogram sea lion, is currently nestled in bush alongside the… Read more Audio

The Tiwai Point Aluminium smelter will keep operating through to the end of December 2024, in a new deal just announced to the New Zealand stock exchange.

Meridian Energy says that global mining… Read more Audio

Doctors are welcoming new guidelines on when and if it is appropriate to snip babies with a tongue-tie.

As many as one in ten babies are born with a tongue-tie each year, which can cause… Read more Audio

Thousands of social media accounts have been purged from the Internet in the wake of the Capitol riots, as tech companies reevaluate the role their services played in organising that chaotic event.

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A fire at a scrap metal yard in Papakura has been put out overnight.

The last fire truck left the site at 4:30am, after battling the blaze since eight o'clock yesterday morning.

At one stage, the… Read more Audio

Americans have a history of snapping up some of the most sought after slices of New Zealand paradise and now it seems they want a piece of the All Blacks too.

Overseas media is reporting US-based… Read more Audio

A Whakatane therapist says the Whakaari eruption and Christchurch mosque shooting reveal a health system unable to deal with mass casualty events.

Now there are calls for millions of dollars of… Read more Audio

In the UK, 1,564 people have died in the past 24 hours after testing positive for Covid-19 - the highest number of deaths reported on a single day since the pandemic began.

It takes the total number… Read more Audio