Morning Report

A top-level taskforce is now working on a priority list of shovel-ready projects for when the government relaxes lockdown measures.

Submissions to the infrastructure industry reference group closed… Read more Audio

Around 800,000 students are back at school again and yesterday we heard from a Napier teacher about how much she was looking forward to getting back to work.

So we thought we'd check in again this… Read more Audio

A protest camp at Ōwairaka/Mount Albert has been removed because they have been breaching the level 4 lockdown rules. 

Protesters have been occupying the site since November over the planned felling… Read more Audio

Nurses at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland say they're alarmed by a Counties Manukau DHB plan to reuse personal protective equipment.

RNZ has been shown correspondence telling staff to collect old… Read more Audio

A government memo leaked to RNZ suggests prisoners could be kept locked up past their release date if deemed a Covid-19 risk.

The Solicitor General has written to Crown solicitors and public… Read more Audio

Countdown has opened a supermarket with a difference, to help deal with the increased demand they're dealing with.

The store is in the Auckland suburb of Penrose and will be like a normal supermarket… Read more Audio

One of the Government's key pandemic advisors say he is still in the dark over whether this country has good enough border control, testing and tracing systems to keep the coronavirus at bay.

Cabinet… Read more Audio

Businesses on the West Coast of the South Island say with only a handful of Covid-19 cases, they should be the first to be allowed to open their doors.

The government will set out today what Alert… Read more Audio

Major media organisations are urging the Government to spend their advertising money locally rather than on global giants Google and Facebook.

They told Parliament's Epidemic Response Committee… Read more Audio

United States President Donald Trump's approval rating in the United States may not have fallen a lot within the country, but his stocks are certainly decling around the world.

Trump's decision to… Read more Audio

A Wellington woman was swept into the sea and her husband was crushed against their house by his Landrover after huge waves battered the south coast yesterday.

Residents had to evacuate the area… Read more Audio