Morning Report for Tuesday 4 October 2022

8:58 AM.Heritage enthusiasts are calling for the government to step in and save the historic Barrett St Nurses Home in New Plymouth.

They say the protected building is falling to pieces while Land… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Māori wards have been established for the first time for Te Tauihu in the Nelson/Whakatū and Marlborough local body elections.

Samantha Gee has been speaking to the candidates who hope to win one of… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The latest report card on the Government's Healthy Homes Initiative shows it is improving the health of vulnerable families.

The programme identifies people living in poor-quality housing and… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.Frustration over potholes is growing around the country.

Locals in Northland worry slow progress on their region's broken roads is going to cost lives and keep a choke hold on the region's economy.

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8:35 AM.Voters in the main centres are starting to show a bit more interest in the local body elections as Saturday's deadline looms.

Turnout in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin is slightly ahead of where it… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Auckland Airport has come under fire for forcing over 100 passengers to sit on a cold floor overnight after refusing them entry to the international departure lounge.

The passengers who had flown… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.There were almost 10,000 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand and 33 new deaths last week, the Ministry of Health reported yesterday.

Over 1000 of the new cases are reinfections. Case numbers appear… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The chances of the ground shaking more violently in a quake is much higher than previously thought for large parts of the country.

A major project from GNS science looked at how different parts of… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Switching power companies is put in the too-hard basket by many of us but new data shows significant discrepancies in pricing that could be hard to ignore.

Independent comparison website Powerswitch… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.The government's Healthy Homes Initiative is being credited with improving vulnerable people's health, but those providing support says many whānau are still suffering in cold, damp houses.

The… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Ukraine fighters have made further gains in occupied territories overnight, to the point where Russia no longer holds the full territory of any of the regions it has laid claim to.

The Kremlin says… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.The vote in the Presidential election in Brazil was a lot tighter than many had expected.

It turns out that opinion polls had vastly underestimated support for the current President, the far right… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.The Capital is on track for its usual low turnout in this Saturday's local body election deadline, but does that mean residents don't care about their city?

Reporter Kirsty Frame climbed on board… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.A tax-cut backflip has undermined confidence in the UK's new Prime Minister Liz Truss and her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng.

The U-turn comes after a growing Conservative revolt over the policy and… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.A lobby group says Auckland Transport's decision to close a number of train lines for months next year is a bolt out of the blue. 

Thousands of commuters on the Onehunga, Southern and Eastern lines… Read more Audio

7:12 AM.Auckland principals worry many senior students will drop out of school over the holidays and not return to finish their qualifications next term.

They say more teens are leaving school early to take… Read more Audio

7:08 AM.The earthquake risk for large parts of the country has increased by an average of 50 percent,

In the Wairarapa, Auckland and Northland it's tripled according to new modelling from GNS. 

Phil… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.The UK Government hss abandoned its plan to cut taxes for top earners.

The backflip comes days after the policy was announced, and sent the pound plunging.

The move has tarnished the Conservative… Read more Audio

6:11 AM.Numbers in Auckland high schools are dwindling with more students swapping study for full-time work before they've finished their qualifications.

Years of pandemic-related disruptions have left some… Read more Audio