Morning Report

Cabinet will decide on Monday whether Auckland will remain at Alert Level 3 or if restrictions will ease.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says for the most part Auckland businesses have coped well… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

The Central Pulse successfully defended their ANZ netball Premiership title last night with a 43-31 win over the Mainland Tactix in Invercargill.

The Pulse raced out to a 12-6 lead after the first… Read more Audio

More New Zealanders are looking to charter private flights as the sector reels from the effect of Covid-19.

Border closures has meant the luxury travel option has shrivelled following the loss of… Read more Audio

The sentencing of Mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant ,on 51 counts of murder, 40 of attempted murder and one charge under the Terrorism Suppression Act, will begin in on Monday in the Christchurch High… Read more Audio

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio

Home-based hobbies and handcrafts are enjoying a surge in popularity in these uncertain times.

More and more grown-ups are finding solace in jigsaws, board games and even lego.

Ruth Hill reports. Read more Audio

Around 80 percent of the surf breaks in California could be gone by the end of the century according to research into rising sea levels.

Surfers here - where no equivalent study has been done -… Read more Audio

Everywhere around New Zealand kerbside rubbish collections are a normal part of every week, but there's no rubbish collection in Kaikōura. 

Residents have petitioned the Kaikōura District Council to… Read more Audio

Fifteen people have been trespassed by the Auckland Council for taking tramping trips in the Waitakere Ranges.

Most tracks in the ranges were closed in 2018 to stop the spread of kauri dieback… Read more Audio