Morning Report for Wednesday 14 June 2023

8:59 AM.A ghost town - that's what Fox Glacier residents feared their town would become after access to their main tourist attraction was severed four years ago. In March 2019, a major landslide destroyed the… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Researchers say the ripple effects of providing healthy meals in schools extend wider than a free lunch. The $260 million Healthy School Lunch Programme, Ka Ora, Ka Ako, provides free meals to schools… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.The New Plymouth District Council has pushed ahead with an average rates rise of 12.4 percent despite being faced with an - at times - hostile Civic Centre crowd. They were fired up by revelations… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.The dysfunction at the Gore District Council has been on display again with a petition calling on chief executive Stephen Parry to resign. The petition was rejected by all councillors at a meeting… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Police are warning of travel disruption in eastern Bay of Plenty as hundreds of gang members follow the hearse carrying the body of Mongrel Mob President Steven Taiatini from Opotiki to the Hillcrest… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.Cheap public transport for young people, a big pledge in the latest Budget, has hit a snag with some councils unable to verify passengers' age. The plan, which will see riders aged between five and… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.Thousands of people in emergency housing motels are without higher fire safety protections, despite Cabinet promises six months ago to set standards for the first time. The government - which was… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.Thousands of Hawkes Bay people with cyclone wrecked homes can start sitting down with council officials from today to nut out what exactly is going to happen to their properties. 236 are in the… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.More than forty iwi organisations have voted overwhelmingly to reject the plan, saying an indigenous led approach is the only way forward. Former Prime Minister Sir John Key announced the sanctuary in… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.National Party leader Christopher Luxon has described New Zealand as a "very negative, wet, whiny, inward-looking' place. A spot-poll published on the news site Stuff had most respondents agreeing… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.Dozens of Chinese migrant workers have been left jobless and destitute after paying thousands of dollars for work visas - only to be left with no work or dismissed by their employer shortly after they… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.New property price figures out today suggest the market could be bottoming out. CoreLogic's interactive Mapping the Market tool shows that around twelve percent 12% of the suburbs it tracks saw… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.The board of RNZ are this morning releasing details of an independent review into how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a range of online stories. One staff member has been stood down while the… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.The Government's Budget promise of cheap public transport for five to 24-year-olds has hit a major snag with some of the biggest councils still figuring out a system for checking a passenger's age… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.New Zealand had a net gain of more than 70-thousand migrants in the year to April. Those numbers included a huge spike in March, while numbers have dropped off again since. Immigration Minister… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Dozens of Chinese migrant workers have been left jobless and destitute after paying thousands of dollars for work visas - only to be left with no work or dismissed by their employer shortly after they… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.Iwi leaders have rejected the government's latest proposal to establish the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary. More than forty iwi organisations have voted overwhelmingly to reject the plan, saying an… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Former US president Donald Trump will make history as the first ex-president to face charges in federal court at 3. He's accused of hoarding thousands of classified government documents after leaving… Read more Audio

6:11 AM.At least 11 people are dead after another missile strike in Ukraine. A Russian missile hit an apartment building and a warehouse in Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's home city of Kryvyi Rih… Read more Audio