Morning Report for Tuesday 24 October 2017

6:00 AM.A man is charged with the murder a 43-year-old Greymouth woman, Details of Labour's coalition deal with New Zealand First will be revealed today, and A bikie club member labelled a threat to… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

6:39 AM.Labour is being urged to keep Bill English's pet social welfare project that identifies high risk families and then focuses government help. The so-called Social Investment Approach uses data to… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Pike River Mine families are confident they will see some action within the first 100 days of the new government. Last week, a cross-party agreement for the re-entry of the mine was announced… Read more Audio

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

7:10 AM.The police investigating the fatal shooting of a Greymouth woman are not sure how much her children witnessed but say they were at home at the time. Forty-three-year-old Hayley Williams was killed at… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Details of the coalition deal struck between Labour and New Zealand First will be announced today, revealing the policy concessions by both sides. The new Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, spent the… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.The bikie club member,AJ Graham, who has been labelled a threat to Australia's national security, says he was no threat then and isn't now that he's been deported back to New Zealand. AJ Graham won… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.Five widows in their 80s are among a growing number of elderly immigrants being forced to leave the country because of a government crackdown. Under a rule change last year the parents of migrants… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Four people died on our roads during the holiday weekend, two of them in a crash during a police pursuit. A further four were seriously injured in those crashes. These incidents and the death of… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.Later this morning Bill English faces his caucus for the first time since Winston Peters put his support behind Labour. While the future of his leadership will inevitably come up, National MPs will… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Tertiary institutions owned by members of the Chinese and Indian communities are bearing the brunt of a Qualifications Authority crackdown. Five of the seven institutions that have lost their… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Labour campaigned to win all seven Maori electorates and did just that, unseating Maori Party Co-Leader, Te Ururoa Flavell in Waiariki along the way. The seven Maori seats and a further two general… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Regional New Zealand featured as a battleground during the election campaign with New Zealand First and Labour both promising more development for communities outside the main centres. Speaking last… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.A man building an ocean-going vaka in Porirua plans to sail it from Wellington to Auckland to raise money for the translation of the Bible into the Tokelau language. The voyage - and the fundraising -… Read more Audio

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

8:11 AM.The Counties Manukau DHB in Auckland has scrapped plans for a Ronald McDonald House at Middlemore Hospital. The district health board says it considered the charity's offer 'carefully' and made the… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The Green Party is about to get its hands on levers of government power for the first time in its history. Under a confidence and supply agreement with Labour, the Greens will have three ministers and… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Since last week's announcement, commentary around what a New Zealand First-Labour coalition will mean for the business community has intensified. Concerns have been raised around the minimum wage… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.The first ever day of commemoration of the New Zealand wars is sparking renewed interest in what happened in the battles that took place almost a century and a half ago. Historians and Maori leaders… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Ngapuhi and other northern iwi are now looking to the future after nine years of research and hearings on their Treaty claims. Te Paparahi of Te Raki - the largest inquiry ever undertaken by the… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.For years the Big Day Out was an annual pilgrimage for music fans and the one-day musical marathon has been missed since the demise of the franchise in 2014. Auckland City Limits filled the gap in… Read more Audio