Morning Report for Friday 7 February 2020

6:06 AM.New Zealand has lost its under-19 Cricket World Cup semi final against Bangladesh in South Africa by six wickets. Read more Audio

6:19 AM.The waka hourua community is ecstatic following a $1.7 million funding boost to strengthen matauranga or knowledge in traditional celestial navigation.

The announcement was made by the Prime Minister… Read more Audio

6:23 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Alison and George Bishop returned to their Mataura home last night to find their home under a metre of water.

Matuara was the last evacuated town to be reopened in Southland after the Mataura River… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.The Māori Party President says it now has a strong preference for Labour because part of the reason they lost their place in Parliament was the long relationship with National.

National's leader… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.President Trump has hinted he will move to make impeachments harder to pursue in his first remarks since being acquitted of impeachment.

Speaking at a national prayer breakfast a short time ago Trump… Read more Audio

6:54 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The Crusaders coach Scott Robertson is confident David Havili's big match experience will see him through tomorrow night's super rugby derby match against the Chiefs in Hamilton. Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Some Mataura residents have returned home only to discover they face a massive clean-up job.

The town had been a no-go zone for two days amid fears of flooding and the potential release of toxic… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Some Mataura residents are heading home after flooding hit the town on Wednesday.

The local river swelled due to heavy rain and threatened to burst its flood defences, forcing the evacuation of… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Some residents of Mataura are returning to their homes after flooding caused the town to be evacuated on Wednesday.

Heavy rain caused the local river to swell to dangerous levels, inundating… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.There have been a number of developments overnight in the spread of the Novel Coronavirus.

In China, the doctor who was one of the first to warn about the Novel Coronavirus only to be silenced by the… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Further tests have confirmed none of the passengers evacuated from Wuhan are infected with the Novel Coronavirus.

Nearly 160 people rescued from the Chinese city are settling in for their two week… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.A number of New Zealanders decided not to take the opportunity to be evacuated back home from Wuhan.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says consular staff are working on the best way to assist New… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.The National Party may not be able to rely on partnering with the Māori Party after the election, even if that party is able to secure a seat to get itself back into Parliament. 

National… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.Researchers want emergency planners to think bigger and prepare to isolate New Zealand from the rest of the world in a global catastrophe.

The government is focused on coping with a pandemic virus… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The Transport Agency needs millions of dollars to update old and creaking IT systems that provide crucial road safety information.

The systems, for example, have been unable to match data to sound an… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The Gore District Council says it wants to speed up the removal of ouvea premix stored at a paper mill near Mataura, after flooding almost reached the substance.

When saturated with water, ouvea… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Well known supporters of public broadcasting say it's under attack, are calling for it to be preserved and well funded.

The Government is expected to make an announcement today on plans to create a… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The Highlanders new recruit Mitchell Hunt is hoping to make a name for himself in Dunedin. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Emergency Management authorities in Gore say the town dodged a bullet, with flood defences standing up to the challenge of record flows down the Mataura River.

Not everyone came off unscathed though… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.The Emergency Management Agency says good weather will allow them to start cleaning up as people return to their homes in Mataura.

It's the last evacuated town to be reopened in Southland after the… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Flamboyant New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is preparing for a big fight in the seat of Northland this year.

RNZ revealed in October Jones was expected to stand in the North and now he's all but said… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.The government is being taken to task for failing to act on a 2017 report which found more than 100 'orphan oil and gas wells' around the country had not been properly decommissioned.

Released to RNZ… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.RNZ is planning to substantially reduce its classical music station RNZ Concert and replace it on FM radio with music for a younger audience.

The move is part of efforts to build a new multimedia… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.A brief update on the movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Waitangi came alive this week with thousands joining to commemorate the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Politicians and iwi leaders dominated news coverage but Te Aniwa Hurihanganui spoke to some of… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.A week of wild weather on the South Island's West Coast has meant a late route change for the Coast to Coast multi-sport race which began today.

A 243 kilometre haul from Kumara Beach to New Brighton… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.A Hawke's Bay school is believed to be the first in the country to join a global campaign to discourage bullying and improve the mental health of its students by doing up its loos.

They were once… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio