Morning Report

Transport officials planned to ask residents near the Auckland Harbour Bridge if their properties could be tested for heavy metals, without telling them contamination had already been found nearby.

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Air New Zealand will rehire some of the cabin crew it furloughed at the beginning of the pandemic, as the planned Trans Tasman Travel Bubble raises the prospect of increased international air travel… Read more Audio

The pandemic has driven the biggest-ever annual increase in home-schooling enrolments.

Education Ministry figures show 7192 children were being home-schooled in July, 619 more than at the same time… Read more Audio

The government says every New Zealander who wants one can get a Covid-19 vaccine, starting midway throught 2021.

It has pre-purchased a further two vaccines - 7.6 million doses will come from… Read more Audio

Finance Minister Grant Robertson has vowed the land at Ihumātao will be used for housing.

The government yesterday agreed to buy the land from Fletcher Building for just under $30 million - with a… Read more Audio

A breakthrough deal to buy the disputed Ihumātao land has brought an end to years of protest - involving hīkoi, petitions, court action, a trip to the United Nations, and a lengthy land-occupation.

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Houses have been flattened, and people left in only the clothes they're wearing as Cyclone Yasa swept into the island of Vanua Levu yesterday evening, with winds gusting as high as 350km/h.

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News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

Record numbers of children have enrolled in home-schooling this year. 

Education Ministry figures show more than seven-thousand children were being home-schooled on July the first, 619 more than the… Read more Audio

The National Party and ACT are warning the deal to purchase the disputed Ihumātao land will open the flood gates for other land occupations.

The Māori Party says they are right.  

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Authorities in Fiji are beginning to find out just how widespread the damage is after severe tropical Cyclone Yasa blasted the country overnight. 

The winds, with peak gusts around 345-kilometres an… Read more Audio

WOMAD, New Plymouth's iconic music, arts, and dance festival which takes place in March every year, has been cancelled for the first time in its sixteen year history.

It comes less than a month after… Read more Audio