Morning Report for Thursday 15 July 2021

6:11 AM.Freight logistics company Mainfreight is ready to go with a Covid-19 vaccination plan for more than a thousand workers and their families in Auckland.

They've been working out the details since last… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.Businesses are complaining an expanding public service is adding to their recruitment woes.

One example is the Ministry for the Environment, which is two thirds bigger than it was two years ago and… Read more Audio

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

6:41 AM.Any pause to the travel bubble with Victoria will affect the plans of any Australian tourists who've been eagerly anticipating a New Zealand getaway.

Amy Dawson lives in Melbourne.

She and her… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Wildfires are burning across the American west including the largest in Oregon, called the Bootleg fire.

The fires come after major heat events across the extremely dry region. Firefighters have been… Read more Audio

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

7:12 AM.New Zealanders are now being told not to travel to Victoria or New South Wales as the Covid-19 situation worsens across the Tasman.

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says he is concerned about… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Police shot an armed man dead in the Hamilton suburb of Hillcrest last night.

The shooting occurred when officers visited an Odonoghue Street address, looking for a person in relation to firearms… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.Vaccinators will have to inject one person a minute at the country's first mass vaccination event at the end of July.

Just 12 health workers will immunise 15,000 people over three days at the… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.Government agencies are expanding rapidly, raising fears the public sector is sucking workers away from private businesses with big money offers.

Updates from 18 departments and ministries reveal… Read more Audio

7:33 AM.The era of ultra-cheap money looks to be coming to an end after yesterday's Reserve Bank monetary statement.

It held the cash rate at 0.25 percent but halted the bond buying programme, which has… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.An Australia-based expert is warning people will need to change their mindset towards Covid-19 as the vaccination programme rolls out.

Epidemiologist Tony Blakely has released his modelling on… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Wellington's largest office building is considerably emptier today as more than 1000 staff stay away.

IRD staff have been told to work from home until the 17-storey Asterton Building on Featherston… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Renowned Hawke's Bay and Marlborough winemaker Sacred Hill has gone into receivership, owing nearly $100 million.

A receivership report says the company overstated the amount of the stock it had in… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Vaccinators in Auckland are preparing to hold the country's first Covid-19 mass vaccination.

They are planning to immunise 15 thousand people over three days from July 30 at the Vodafone Event Centre… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Police have released more information about the shooting of an armed man dead in the Hamilton suburb of Hillcrest on Wednesday night.

Reporter Jordan Bond spoke to Philippa Tolley. Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Former US President George W Bush has spoken out about his fears over US troops withdawing from Afganistan - warning of "unbelievably bad" consequences.

His administration launched the US military… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Samoa's caretaker administration and its leader have been accused of an unprecedented attack on the rule of law.

The Human Rights Protection Party have questioned the competency of the Chief Justice… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.The winter school holidays are proving to be a much-needed shot in the arm for tourism.

Air New Zealand is calling these holidays their busiest July break ever with well over half a million… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.Hard on the heels of the Auckland mass vaccination plan, family doctors in Wellington also plan to step up their Covid-19 plans.

There have been complaints in parts of Wellington about delays and a… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.In the UK more than 1200 experts and doctors have spoken out against the government's plan to allow Covid-19 cases to increase, which they say borders on "criminal".

Britain's daily deaths has hit a… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.In Canada, more graves of indigenous children at residential schools have been found.

The latest discovery is in British Columbia at a former indigenous residential school known as 'Canada's… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Now, a little known fact about sharks.

They've been roaming our oceans for more than 400 million years, quietly recording the planet's climate history.

It's fossilized teeth of a now-extinct Sand… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Not all heroes wear capes - and not all superheroes come from the USA.

In Latin America, some real-life icons wear Mexican wrestling masks or arm themselves with shields and herbicide to lead… Read more Audio