Morning Report

Staff at Te Pūkenga are surprised, and some are unhappy the super-institute is pushing ahead with more changes.

It has just finished a major restructure that cost 200 jobs and now it is consulting on… Read more Audio

Councils want more certainty over what the change of government means for their water assets, and their finances.

To the delight of councils opposed to Three Waters, National has promised to start… Read more Audio

Australian firefighters are battling intense bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales, where the conditions are so severe they are focusing on saving lives, rather than properties.

Authorities… Read more Audio

A Māori birthing unit recommended for Hawke's Bay is languishing in a queue of work Te Whatu Ora has picked up after District Health Boards were folded into the entity.

A birthing unit was… Read more Audio

A Kāinga Ora tenant whose family has been threatened with a hammer by a neighbour, says her complaints have fallen on deaf ears.

Despite receiving more than 8,000 complaints in the past year, the… Read more Audio

The brother of the first identified victim of the Whakaari White Island eruption in 2019 says money spent on lawyers could have been better spent going into the community.

The island's owners… Read more Audio

The Royal College of GPs' medical director says the latest statistics from Te Whatu Ora are grim, but they align with what he sees in practice.

The quarterly clinical performance data - released on… Read more Audio

A legal expert says he is expecting hefty fines and reparations for the firms involved in the Whakaari White Island case.

The Auckland District Court found Whakaari Management guilty on one of the… Read more Audio

The mother of a tour guide who died in the Whakaari White island disaster wants assurances something similar could never happen again.

Avey Woods' son, Hayden Marshall-Inman, was one of the 22 people… Read more Audio