Morning Report

The Health Minister inspected the community programme in Victoria and says it's worth replicating here. Audio

The brother of Arthur Allan Thomas says he has had enough of police delaying tactics. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

The American President Barack Obama pledged to make changes without Congress if necessary in his State of the Union address. Audio

After impressing the Grammy judges in Los Angeles on Monday night, Lorde took to the stage in Auckland last night and wowed her home crowd. Audio

The Returned and Services Association says the vast majority of its members are against changing the flag. Audio

The West Coast MP, Damien O'Connor says he has been flooded with phone calls and emails from constituents over a blogger's scathing internet headline about the death of a Greymouth man. Audio

There could be bad news for people with mortgages when the Reserve Bank announces this morning whether it will hike the Official Cash Rate. Audio

The Conservation Minister, Nick Smith's been listening to that and speaks with us. Audio

The amount of 1080 poison dropped on conservation land is to be massively increased this year to battle an expected plague of millions of rats and stoats. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright, has welcomed a Government plan to launch a massive aerial 1080 programme to head off a predicted explosion in rat and stoat numbers. Audio