Morning Report for Thursday 17 November 2022

8:57 AM.When the fulltime whistle blows in a football match in Wellington on Sunday, the score could be in the thousands.

Twenty-eight people are attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the longest… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.A boomerang and stone knives are among six cultural artefacts being returned to Indigenous Australians from the Otago museum today.

The items were taken more than a century ago, and have been part of… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.A toolkit of a different type is available to the construction industry from today.

The Keep it Decent guidelines aim to build safe and respectful workplaces by tackling sexual harrassment and… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Communities in NSW are braced for more devastating floods with warnings of historic river rises and prolonged peaks in the state's central west.

It comes after the body of a woman was recovered from… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.With a summer of Covid-19 on its way, is there a need to bring forward the availability of booster shots or vaccinations for new variants?

On Wednesday the Health Ministry warned there may soon be up… Read more Audio

8:33 AM.Tourism has bounced back stronger than expected with Australian visitors bolstering the sector over winter.

That's according to Infometrics' Brad Olsen, who says it's helped lead to a 2.6-percent… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.A victim's advocate is describing sentencing discounts for offenders as a courtroom "lolly scramble" that lets survivors down and offenders off the hook.

There was an outcry when Tauranga teenager… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.The head of NATO says a blast in Poland yesterday which killed two people was likely caused by a Ukrainian air defences trying to shoot down a Russian cruise missile.

Jens Stoltenberg says the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.NATO allies are still trying to establish the facts about a missile which hit eastern Poland, near the Ukranian border, yesterday and killed two Polish people.

Police have blocked access to the… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Beware those bearing gifts - or at least beware those bearing deals during the Black Friday Sales next week.

That's the message from Consumer New Zealand, which says we're hitting the time of year… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.A plan to build nearly 700 homes on a Napier flood plain is being attacked by a local councillor as making no sense.

The development led by Ngati Kahungunu will be in one of the city's lowest lying… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Our main nurses union says it is "flabbergasted" to learn enrolled nurses and nurse practitioners aren't included on the Government's residency Green List.

The two roles were included on a list of 30… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The amount the country's hospitals owe to more than a quarter of a million people who work for them has exploded to almost $2 billion.

But the delays in sorting out how to pay people are only getting… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.After two aborted attempts in August and September NASA's Artemis 1 rocket took off on Wednesday night from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

It is the most powerful space rocket ever launched.

… Read more Audio

7:33 AM.In Christchurch, two people have been charged over the stabbing of a man on Monday, while walking his dog.

An 18-year-old man has been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.With Covid-19 cases on the rise, the government's stepped in to expand eligibility for booster shots.

From Friday, Māori and Pacific people over the age of forty will be able to book their second… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Former US President Donald Trump has announced he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. 

At his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate, he made a speech about his candidacy that was filled… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.The Prime Minister looks set to have a full schedule of one on one meetings with a host of leaders at the APEC summit in Thailand, starting tomorrow.

It's understood she'll have her first face to… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.The Polish President Andrzej Duda says the missile that hit Poland is likely an "accident" from Ukrainian air defences. 

Two people were killed yesterday after a missile landed in eastern Poland near… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.National Party climate change spokesperson Scott Simpson says his attendance at COP27 in Egypt will help shape the party's environmental policies for next year's election. Simpson is part of a New… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.Have you ever fancied yourself a bus driver?

Or maybe you'd more inclined to take charge of a train or a ferry.

Well, this weekend is your chance to test the waters - Auckland Transport is holding a… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.New Zealand businesses are among tens of thousands of people who have converged on Egypt for the annual UN climate conference. 

They are looking for information, to make contacts, and to cut deals.  

6:12 AM.Investigations have continued into the cause of the missile strike that killed two people in Poland. 

The missile which landed in eastern Poland is now believed to be a wayward air defence rocket… Read more Audio