Morning Report for Wednesday 17 July 2019

6:00 AM.The Government outlines a 10-year plan to cut road deaths. Some residents of Matata in the Bay of Plenty are vowing to fight plans to make them move. farmers negotiate a huge discount on the cost of… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.Another emphatic win for the Silver Ferns at the Netball World Cup in Liverpool. Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:40 AM.People living in Bay of Plenty beach settlement of Matata have been given a month to decide whether to move out or stay and fight.

Twenty-seven homes were destroyed in 2005 when torrential rain… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Federated Farmers is sounding a note of caution about the level of farming community support for the emission trading scheme.

Yesterday the Climate Change Minister, James Shaw, described the… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Soft inflation backs view of more RBNZ rates cuts, but is the central bank headed into uncharted waters. Cutting red tape and costs for small businesses. Ethical Kiwisaver scheme aims for young… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The Silver Ferns are ready for the business end of the Netball World Cup. Audio

7:14 AM.Cutting road deaths by 40 percent over 10 years is the aim of the government's new road safety strategy.

Road to Zero will focus on improving safety on the roads, rather than reducing crashes.

The… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Residents living in a dangerous debris flow zone in the Bay of Plenty beach settlement of Matata and who don't want to move are vowing to fight a council plan to shift them out.

In 2005, part of the… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.Matata residents are weighing their options, after local councils and central government offered to buy properties in a dangerous debris flow zone at a market rate.

The decision comes 14 years after… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.Farmers are being offered a 95 percent discount when they're brought into the emissions trading scheme but sector leaders say there are better ways of reducing agriculture's climate impact.

The… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.The Interim Climate Change Committee wants farmers to start paying the cut price rate from 2025.

But farming groups have put forward an alternative proposal - to research new technologies to lower… Read more Video, Audio

7:43 AM.The country's largest gun retailer is about to open a new mega store in Christchurch, angering many living close by, who fear it will only lead to more firearms in the community.

Katie Todd reports.

7:46 AM.It's the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 which carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon and into a place in history.

Four days later, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The 30-year reign of Dunedin's Baldwin Street as the steepest street in the world is over.

Sarah Badham co-led the Welsh campaign to share the title of steepest street for Ffordd Pen LLech. Read more Audio

7:57 AM.Two Little Blue Penguins, otherwise known as Wellington's waddling vagrants, have made headlines around the world.

Last night Department of Conservation rangers went back out to check on them to see… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.All Blacks assistant coach Ian Foster has labelled Sonny Bill Williams doubtful for this weekend's Rugby Championship test against Argentina in Buenos Aires. Audio

8:10 AM.The government has set a new target to reduce road deaths and injuries by 40 percent over the next 10 years.

If achieved, it would prevent 750 deaths by 2030.

Currently one person on average is… Read more Video, Audio

8:14 AM.Donald Trump is not backing down after telling four nonwhite Democratic congresswomen that they should "go back" to the "crime infested places" where they came from.

He has tweeted today that the… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.The residents of a small Bay of Plenty beach settlement at risk from potentially deadly debris flows will be offered market value for their properties - if they decide to leave.

The Whakatane… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.The second gun buy back and the first rural collection takes place later today in the small Northland town of Waipu.

RNZ's Joanna MacKenzie went to Waipu to find out how they are preparing for… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Greenpeace is astonished the Government's latest climate proposal includes an option for dairy farmers to voluntarily deal with their emissions over the next six years.

But Federated Farmers says the… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.The mayor of the Grey District Council is greeting news of the sale of Westland Milk to a foreign buyer as disappointing – but inevitable.

The Overseas Investment Office has approved the sale of the… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.The Guinness World Records Editor in Chief, Craig Glenday, says that while it's no longer the steepest street in the world, Baldwin Street is still one to be proud of.

In 1987 the street was crowned… Read more Audio