Morning Report

A bit spike in enrolments of new migrant children, many of whom don't speak English, has come as bit of shock for some schools.

In the past financial year, Immigration New Zealand approved almost… Read more Audio

Pacific leaders are divided over Japan's release of more than one-million-tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater into the ocean.

The release is due to get under way Thursday morning.

The Japanese… Read more Audio

The Law Society is responding to recommendations from an independent panel by saying it will establish a new regulator and overhaul its system for handling complaints.

Currently, the Law Society acts… Read more Audio

The mother of an 11-year-old killed in a bus crash on Mt Ruapehu has told a court of her anguish at losing her daughter.

Ruapehu Alpine Lifts was operating the shuttle bus that overturned after its… Read more Audio

The paramilitary leader of the Wagner group is believed to have been killed in a plane crash.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, was listed as a passenger on a plane which has crashed, and Russian authorities say… Read more Audio

The Act party leader, David Seymour, insists his party has done a good job of vetting its candidates.

The Rangitata candidate, Elaine Naidu Franz, has resigned, after it emerged she compared vaccine… Read more Audio

India has successfully landed a spacecraft on the Moon, becoming the first country to land near its south pole.

The final phase of the operation involved the Chandrayaan-3 craft slowing its speed… Read more Audio

The ACT Party is embroiled in more controversy after several list candidates have resigned after making inflammatory online social media posts.

Leader David Seymour last week joked about blowing up… Read more Audio

A coroner has described how the precarious working conditions of two young provincial men at a leading labour-hire company ended in a double fatality.

Floyd Harris and his passenger Jake Ginders died… Read more Audio

A Wairoa poacher has been sent to prison for catching and trading recreationally caught crayfish.

Fisheries NZ says 60-year-old John Nohotima was the key to the black market ring which sold a total… Read more Audio