Morning Report for Wednesday 2 December 2020

6:13 AM.Denmark plans to dig up thousands of dead mink - culled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus - after the animals started to rise out of their mass graves.

Hundreds of bloated mink corpses have… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

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

6:40 AM.A suspect and a police dog are both in a stable condition after a serious shooting incident in Northland yesterday. 

The male suspect was shot three times by officers after he fired at a police dog.

6:46 AM.The company wanting to buy the Maari Oil Field off the coast of Taranaki believes there's three times more oil left to extract than official estimates.

Opponents of the sale say that's further… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Ministers differ over the need for an independent investigation into the Whakaari/White Island rescue and recovery mission.

A major WorkSafe inquiry has charged 13 parties after examining events… Read more Audio

7:12 AM.Mayors in Northland say their communities are concerned by rising gun violence in the region.

A shoot-out with police near Dargaville is the fourth gun related incident in the area in less than five… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Workplace safety investigators into a Desert Road double-fatality smash failed to record, months later, that a baby boy died alongside his preschool brother.

WorkSafe closed the file four days after… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.German police have detained a man who drove an SUV through crowds of people.

At least four people have died and fifteen are injured in the town of Trier.

Germany correspondent Thomas Sparrow speaks… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.The government will declare a national climate emergency today, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern introducing the motion in Parliament this afternoon.

In 2017 she called climate change her… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.Pablo Matera has been stripped of the Argentina captaincy and suspended along with two team-mates for "discriminatory and xenophobic" comments in historical social media posts.

The Argentine Rugby… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.Bold action is being urged to prevent Covid-19 making life even tougher for children living in deprivation.

Income and hardship data in the latest Child Poverty Monitor out today show the country was… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.A crash in Central Hawke's Bay yesterday which killed three people has been called absolutely devastating by the region's mayor.

The car carrying the three people collided with a truck collided on… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.America's coronavirus curve is steep and it keeps climbing.

The pandemic is the worst its been since Covid-19 first entered the United States, according to the country's top infectious disease… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The Black Caps cricketers final T20 against the West Indies was abandoned due to rain, and the mood was dampened further by news of the death of former New Zealand selector and manager Ross Dykes at… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Covid-19 has caused economic pain throughout the country, but nowhere more than the lower South Island where the numbers on the dole have increased more than 50 percent since February.

Unsurprisingly… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Pure fruit juice is having its health rating squeezed - putting it on the same, or even lower level, than diet coke.

Most New Zealand juices without any added sugar receive an automatic rating of… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.An abuse survivor is calling for Pacific people in New Zealand who have been abused in care to go to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care for guidance and support.

Frances Tagaloa spoke… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Aucklanders are being asked to reach deeper into their pockets next year in a one off rates increase of 5 percent.

The proposal is part of the city council's new 10-year budget focused on Covid-19… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Māori and Pasifika female academics are paid nearly $8000 less a year than their non-Māori and Pasifika male counterparts. 

That's just one of the findings from a new study, led by Dr Tara McAllister… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.The Hawke's Bay Regional Council chair says "bring it on"  after hearing talk of councillors investigating a motion of no confidence in his leadership.

In a contentious result, councillors voted to… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.A public health researcher is calling for an urgent overhaul in the way alcohol is sold online.

New research shows that online alcohol delivery services used during the Covid-19 lockdown in March… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.The government's bringing in new rules to protect New Zealanders from unaffordable loans.

The Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, David Clark, has just made the announcement at a budgeting… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Fire and Emergency has moved all of Otago to a restricted fire season as the region rapidly dries out with more hot weather forecast.

North Canterbury remains on low alert - but that's in part thanks… Read more Audio