Morning Report for Monday 30 May 2022

8:54 AM.An alternative Wellington weekly paper that served the capital for eight years until 2001 is alive again in digital form.

City Voice may have been the closest the capital ever got to having its own… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.New research says 11,000 litres of water is needed to dilute the pollution from just one litre of dairy milk produced in Canterbury.

The study - published in the Australasian Journal of Environmental… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Security patrols will restart in Christchurch's red zone due to rising vandalism.

The patrols were canned last year when the city council took over the area's management from the Government.

Local… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Another evangelical church is being accused of exploiting members by pressuring them to make whopping donations.

Celebration Centre Church, in Christchurch, is facing similar complaints to ones made… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.It has been a year since major flooding hit the Ashburton district.

The event saw the swelled river damage a local bridge and temporarily split the town in half, and many farmers' paddocks ended up… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Samoa has become the latest to fall for China's charm as the economic powerhouse continues its diplomatic sweep of the Pacific.

Both countries have signed a bilateral agreement, amid a Chinese… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Anthonie Tonnon is a self-proclaimed 'punisher' for public transport, an elevator operator and now, a Taite Music Prize Winner.

The album Leave Love Out Of This, saw Whanganui-based Tonnon take out… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.New Zealand driver Scott Dixon has had his hopes of another Indy500 win dashed by a pit lane speed violation Dixon started in pole position after setting a new speed record in the qualifying lap… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.The inquest into the suspected suicide of a Palmerston North Hospital mental health ward patient more than eight years ago is starting today.

Shaun Gray, a 30-year-old father of one, died on April… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Māori housing advocates say red tape and barriers at the bank are stopping whānau building on their own land.

They say its essential Māori can build papakāinga - housing for a community - as Māori… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.It's a year since heavy rain caused rivers in Mid-Canterbury to burst their banks causing huge damage to farmland.

An area known as Greenstreet inland from Ashburton was the hardest hit - paddocks… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.The Chinese foreign minister is expected to push a region-wide security deal, which was first revealed in leaked draft documents.

Samoa and the Solomon Islands have already inked bilateral agreements… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.Another New Zealand-based evangelical church is being accused of exploiting members by pressuring them to work long hours for free and give huge donations.

The Celebration Centre Church has assets… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.The Prime Minister is gearing up for a massive week in the United States - capping off her jam-packed programme with the most-coveted of invites - a White House visit on Wednesday.

But her delegation… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.US President Joe Biden has arrived in Uvalde, the Texas town where an 18 year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers last week.

It could be defining moment for the President at a time when… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Tairawhiti is expecting lots of rain - again - after it was hit badly twice in space of three weeks earlier this year.

The region's under an orange rain warning, with up to 150 millimetres expected… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.The Trade Minister has acknowledged the United States is unlikely to return to the trans-Pacific trade pact in the near future, but says New Zealand won't give up on it.

Damien O'Connor is travelling… Read more Audio

6:08 AM.The Coromandel has been hit by heavy rain overnight, with more heavy downpours, severe thunderstorms and strong winds beginning to hit other parts of the North Island now.

An orange rain warning is… Read more Audio