Morning Report for Friday 26 August 2016

8:58 AM.It's Senate school time and back to school for the Olympians. Our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh has all the latest Australian news. Audio

8:55 AM.Susie samples New Zealand's first wine in a can. Audio

8:51 AM.Christchurch has a novel way of keeping unneutered and wandering dogs off the streets - the SPCA helps out with a dog welfare clinic that offers cheap desexing. Audio

8:47 AM.Maori technology leaders hope the first ever hui for young Maori interested in careers in IT will change old-fashioned ideas about the tech sector Audio

8:44 AM.The evidence has ended at the trial of Sir Ngatata Love. The Crown says he kept a Wellington iwi organisation in the dark about a payment by property developers to a company connected to his partner… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.After comfortably beating the Wallabies in Sydney last week, the All Blacks will again meet Australia tomorrow night in Wellington. It's also the second Bledisloe Cup match. We look at the side's… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.Things heat up in the Auckland mayoral campaign at a fiery debate where three of the leading candidates take potshots at front-runner Phil Goff. Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:18 AM.As rescuers continue to search the rubble of quake stricken Amatrice, survivors' thoughts are now turning to how they can move on from the disaster. Audio

8:14 AM.With the BBC's Prague correspondent Rob Cameron. Audio

8:11 AM.Police will try today to recover the body of a Czech tramper from the Routeburn Track. We talk to RNZ's Alison Ballance, who knows the area well. Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:56 AM.A New Zealand photojournalist has documented the growing trade in mammoth tusks from Siberia. Amos Chapple gained entry to a camp in Russia's Arctic north. Audio

7:53 AM.Domino's has partnered with a drone company to become the first in the world to launch a commercial drone delivery service. The service will begin later this year in Auckland. Audio

7:49 AM.A report is recommending cockpit video recorders be installed in Robinson R44 helicopters to help find out why they are prone to breaking up in mid-air. Audio

7:46 AM.The local MP, Government minister Craig Foss, has accused the Hawke's Bay Regional Council of adding to public uncertainty about the contamination of Havelock North's water supply. Audio

7:42 AM.A world authority on false confessions says New Zealand needs to strengthen its laws around the police use of a controversial police under-cover technique.The "Mr Big scenario" has featured in two… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.New figures on fish dumping prosecutions appear to back the critics who say commercial boats are getting away with breaking the law. Audio

7:24 AM.Parliament's given local councils the power to decide whether or not to let businesses open on Easter Sunday. Rotorua's mayor Steve Chadwick has campaigned long and hard for this and says she's over… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.A race against time in Italy to rescue survivors from the big earthquake as the death toll reaches 250. CNN's Fred Pleitgen talks to us from Amatrice. Audio

7:13 AM.A traumatic ordeal for a young Czech tourist stranded in the middle of winter on the Routeburn finally comes to an end. Audio

7:12 AM.Police in Northland hunt for an armed offender who shot at police and then stole a police car. Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:57 AM.Wall Street is weaker ahead of the central bankers meeting at Jackson Hole Audio

6:56 AM.The national grid operator Transpower says it has a 600 million dollar scheme in its pocket to get electricity out of the South Island if the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter shuts down. Audio

6:55 AM.But for Fletcher Building the Brexit vote has already delivered a bit of a boon for its UK-based laminate making business. Audio

6:54 AM.The headlines and tumult over Britain's decision to leave the European Union -- the so called Brexit -- have died down, and in the aftermath companies have been assessing what it means for them. Audio

6:52 AM.Listed healthcare and animal products company, Ebos, remains ever alert for potential acquisitions to sustain its double digit growth of the past few years. Audio

6:51 AM.Fonterra's 50 cent increase in its milk price forecast to 4-dollars-75 a kilo of milk solids, if sustained, will pump close to a billion dollars into the economy and may take the edge off the Reserve… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.Local councils now have the power decide whether businesses can open in their area on Easter Sunday. Parliament has passed law on what it acknowledges is a contentious issue, but says allowing… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.A police search and rescue team will try again this morning to bring out the body of a Czech man who fell to his death from the Routeburn Track in Fiordland a month ago. Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector Audio

6:21 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector Audio

6:14 AM.Rescuers continue to search through rubble in Italy but hopes of finding people still alive are fading. We get an update from journalist Angela Giuffrida. Audio

6:10 AM.A Canadian from a town where people died from contaminated water says councils always try to shift the blame. Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Manhunt underway for armed man in Northland, Traumatic ordeal for Czech tourist after stranding on Routeburn, Rescuers search demolished towns in central Italy, Rotorua's mayor thrilled at chance to… Read more Audio