Morning Report Podcast Options

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:58 AM.American stocks ended weaker - lower oil prices and investors taking a breather weighing on the market. Audio

6:57 AM.Across the Tasman and our regular look at financial matters, with our man in Sydney, Jim Parker. Audio

6:57 AM.Expectations are for a quarterly consumer inflation rate of 0.1 percent for an annual rate to 0.4 percent. Audio

6:55 AM.The former head of the country's biggest power company says electricity prices will fall to a third of their current level in a little over a decade because of the spread of solar power. Audio

6:54 AM.The managers of the Tegel sharefloat say they have received more-than 200-million dollars of binding offers already as the offer formally opens today. Audio

6:51 AM.Inflation will be the key business topic with official data for the first quarter out today. A Reuters poll of economists is picking zero-point-1 percent for the quarter and zero-point-4 percent for… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.The head of Papua New Guinea's police anti-corruption unit has been suspended following the arrests last week of several high-profile officials. Audio

6:40 AM.The Green Party wants a temporary ban on issuing consents for water bottling projects. Audio

6:25 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:22 AM.The Human Rights Commission and the IHC say it is time for a law change giving disabled children the absolute right to attend their local school. Audio

6:18 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

6:15 AM.Bad weather has halted attempts to salvage the fishing vessel the Jubilee. Audio

6:13 AM.Some roads remain closed on the Coromandel pensinsular after a night of heavy rain. Audio

6:09 AM.The death toll from severe earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan have continued to rise overnight. Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:00 AM.At least 41 people are dead after the quakes measuring 6.4 and 7.3 on the southern island of Kyushu. Council contractors are working to clear slips that have closed roads in the north of the… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

8:52 AM.Three afternoons a week, children sit down at city libraries to read to dogs. Audio

8:48 AM.North Island robins, or toutouwai, are being re-introduced into their new pest-free home at the Shakespear Open Sanctuary in Auckland. Audio

8:44 AM.Russia's involvement in the Panama Papers, drugs in sport and even the the president's love life came up in Vladamir Putin's annual call-in television show. Audio

8:39 AM.They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but for New Zealand Post the value was much higher last night. Audio

8:36 AM.Parents and educators say the government's overhaul of special education must include more funding. Audio

8:31 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:26 AM.The government's announcement it will take pest control out of the hands of local government has some worried communities will no longer have a say. Audio