Morning Report for Tuesday 5 April 2022

8:57 AM.Five years ago, journalists Greg Dixon and Michele Hewitson made the move from Auckland to a 12-acre block in the Wairarapa. The couple write a shared column about "two townies making a new life in… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.A Canadian family is on a year-long trip to see the wonders of the world before the children go blind.

Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier have three children with an incurable condition, which will… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.A second-hand bus boom has developed after two years of closed borders and domestic restrictions wrecking havoc on the tour coach sector.

The start of the year saw a 71 percent increase in the number… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Some principals doubt they can properly and adequately ventilate their classrooms to reduce the spread of Covid-19 during winter.

They say leaving doors and windows open is not practical on cold days… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The government's decision to keep all of the country on the most-restrictive Covid-19 setting is casting a red light over the hospitality sector.

In Auckland, the country's restaurant capital, many… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Climate Change Minister James Shaw says farmers need to take part in a scheme to reduce emissions, after the release of a stark climate change report.

The report has found that 83 per cent of net… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Russia is being widely accused of violating international law in its invasion of Ukraine, and now the International Criminal Court is investigating.

The US President Joe Biden has already labelled… Read more Audio

7:58 AM.More and more Aucklanders are heading out of town for good.

According to the latest data, 25,000 of them have quit the City of Sails over the past two years in search of a different life elsewhere in… Read more Audio

7:52 AM. The final climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found it is now or never if the world is to stave off climate disaster.

The IPCC report says even if all the… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.If you're looking for a new job now might be the perfect time.

Job vacancies on Trade Me have shot up to a record high across the country in the first three months of this year.

What's more, 60… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says it is inevitable new Covid-19 variants - such as the newly-discovered XE strain - will arrive in the country.

Early studies of the new variant, which… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.The final installment in a landmark UN climate change report released overnight has a stark admission - It is now or never if the world is to stave off climate disaster.

After a contentious approval… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Western outrage is intensifying over shocking reports of civilian executions by Russian troops in Ukraine.

Ukranian officials are in the process of recovering hundreds of bodies of civilians they say… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.The Foreign Minister says there's a lot of evidence "piling up" of war crimes by Russia in Ukraine.

On Monday the Prime Minister said there was evidence of war crimes by Russia in Ukraine, but she… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.The Government has approved sanctions on a further thirty-six Russian oligarchs or people with close ties to the Russian regime or the Russian President himself.

None of them are in New Zealand, but… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.New Zealand has added a further 36 individuals to its Russia sanctions list.

It doesn't feature anyone currently in New Zealand, but one notable addition is billionaire Roman Abramovich - the former… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.The red traffic light remains on for New Zealand businesses, even though many of them will no longer need to ensure all their customers have a valid vaccine pass, with that requirement ending today.

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6:12 AM."It's now or never".

That's the verdict from the world's leading scientists in a landmark UN report on climate change which came out overnight.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report… Read more Audio