Morning Report

New Zealand has won the Wool Handling title at the World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in France.

Teams from around the world, including New Zealand, were competing this week in wool… Read more Audio

The government says it is changing a contentious scheme that pays parents to look after disabled adult children.

It says it will widen the scheme to cover all disabled children and will also pay… Read more Audio

Four severely overweight patients have had to stay months longer than they needed to at Middlemore Hospital because they are too big to be sent anywhere else.

A spinal patient in his 50s, has finally… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

One of the country's top lawyers want the government to fund special reports that help sentencing judges understand an offender's background.

The Ministry of Justice stopped paying for cultural… Read more Audio

A report from the Ministry of Health says many cash-strapped parents are stressed and anxious about providing food and are often forced to rely on charities or emergency assistance.

It estimates… Read more Audio

For the fourth time, the US women's football team have won the FIFA Women's Football World Cup.

They beat the Netherlands 2-0 in Lyon in France to take the title. The underdog Dutch were playing in… Read more Audio

The United States have won the FIFA women's World Cup beating the Netherlands 2-nil in the final in Lyon. Audio

Four severely overweight patients are stranded in Middlemore because there is nowhere suitable for them to go. Parents who look after disabled family members say the new funding changes just give… Read more Audio

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

A survey of the population of the endangered King Shag has just finished in the Marlborough Sounds - and there's encouraging news.

The entire population is estimated to be just one-thousand and they… Read more Audio