Morning Report

Principals hope frustrating delays in building new classrooms will soon be a thing of the past.

The Education Ministry is developing a catalogue of tried and tested designs schools can choose from to… Read more Audio

Residents in Carterton are paying the highest average rates of anyone in the country, while rates in Central Otago are the lowest.

A report by the Taxpayers' Union and Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance… Read more Audio

Ngāti Awa has lost nearly $1.5 million in revenue since the White Island Tours closed, but helping its community heal from the tragedy remains its top priority one year on. 

Te Aniwa Hurihanganui… Read more Audio

Drive in to Whakatāne and you'll see the signs: 'Gateway to Whakaari'.

But after last December's deadly eruption, will people ever be allowed to set foot on New Zealand's most active volcano again?

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The Royal Commission into the Christchurch terror attacks will finally be made public today.

It looks at what could and should have been done to prevent the 15 March 2019 attack, what could be done… Read more Audio

A man who was later found to be one of New Zealand's most notorious sex offenders could have been stopped at least two years earlier but the SIS failed to tell the police they had photographic… Read more Audio

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

The man in charge of sending a specially trained team back onto Whakaari after the eruption says thinking of all the things that could go wrong took him to a dark place.

After days of planning and… Read more Audio

Ngāti Awa says it still feels an enormous weight of responsibility over the Whakaari eruption nearly one year on from the tragedy. 

White Island Tours was bought by the iwi in 2017 in a bid to expand… Read more Audio

How a lone gunman managed to build up an arsenal of high powered weapons and commit this country's worst act of terrorism, all the while seemingly under the radar of the intelligence services, are… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio