Morning Report for Monday 20 June 2022

8:46 AM.The Black Ferns have won the Pacific Four Series 2022 with a crushing victory in the final against the United States.

It's a promising sign before October's Rugby World Cup.

Rugby commentator Alice… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.A year after the death of a man at Palmerston North Hospital, his family are still waiting for someone to be held accountable.

Paul Rowe lay injured for more than two hours until he was found, and… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.Earthworks have begun this week on a cohousing development in Tākaka, aiming to build 100 houses across three neighbourhoods.

The project includes almost 10 hectares of parks and gardens in the small… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.Friday will be Aotearoa's first Matariki public holiday to mark the start of the Māori new year.

It occurs when  the Matariki star cluster - otherwise known as Pleiades - rises in mid winter, and is… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Another Super Rugby trophy will be settling into its new home at Crusaders HQ in Christchurch after the competition kings outclassed old rivals the Blues 21-7 in Saturday night's final in Auckland.

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8:20 AM.The Crusaders' dynasty rolls on with a 13th Super Rugby title in 24 years locked away.

The red and blacks won the inaugural Super Rugby Pacific title 21-7 over the Blues in Auckland on Saturday… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.The Marlborough District Mayor is hoping today to hear any details from the police investigation of the horrific road crash south of Picton.

A van carrying nine people collided with a refrigerated… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The dust has settled, the hoardings have been packed away, and to nobody's great surprise, Tauranga voters overwhelmingly chose National's Sam Uffindell to be their new MP.

But the voter turnout… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.A case to try and stop a mega-landfill development in north Auckland will be heard today in the Environment Court.

The Dome Valley landfill has faced opposition from mana whenua and community groups… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Swimming's world governing body Fina has banned transgender swimmers from women's elite events if they have begun male puberty.

The new rules, decided during an extraordinary general congress in… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.A top forensic psychiatrist says psychiatric patients are suffering serious human rights abuses in prisons because there's no room in acute mental health accommodation.

He says the inhumane… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.A night in a luxury hotel is being used to entice staff at the Taranaki District Health Board to get a flu shot.

The DHB has declared itself a 'Fortress' against winter ailments.

Only about 50… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.Yet another Super Rugby trophy will be settling into its new home at Crusaders HQ in Christchurch.

The most dominant team in competition history have again proven they're the benchmark - producing a… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.The dust has settled, the hoardings have been packed away, the sun finally came out, and to nobody's great surprise, Tauranga voters overwhelmingly chose National's Sam Uffindell to be their new MP.

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7:18 AM.A man who lives near the site of the crash that killed seven people south of Picton yesterday says he's constantly expecting the next accident on that stretch of road.

A van and a truck collided near… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.The Prime Minister says an accident which killed seven people over the weekend is "horrific", but work is being done to bring the road toll down.

The seven, including a baby, were killed when the van… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.The Crusaders' dynasty rolls on with a 13th Super Rugby title in 24 years locked away.

The red and blacks won the inaugural Super Rugby Pacific title 21-7 over the Blues in Auckland on Saturday… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.Police say it appears a van involved in an horrific crash south of Picton may have crossed the centreline when it collided with a truck.

Seven occupants of the van - one of them a one-year-old baby -… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.Space scientists have a new treasure trove of data to download about almost two billion stars.

The European Space Agency's GAIA telescope observes our galaxy, the Milky Way, some 1.5 million… Read more Audio

6:10 AM.There are credible allegations that Russia is using Wagner Group mercenaries, who've been accused of war crimes in the past, alongside its troops in Ukraine.

The Wagner Group is a private Russian… Read more Audio