Morning Report

A new report warns urgent action is needed in New Zealand's aviation industry to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Aotearoa ranks sixth in the world for it's per-capita… Read more Audio

A Wellington artist who wants to redefine what a portrait should be has won this year's Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award and a $20,000 prize.

Stevei Houkāmau's work is a five-metre-long sculpture… Read more Audio

The country's first 'wet house' is about to open in Wellington - it's a shelter for homeless alcoholics that still allows them to drink on site.

Te Pa Maru has been decades in the making, bedevilled… Read more Audio

A campaign to stop children being accidentally exposed to internet pornography is calling for tighter restrictions on illegal sexual content.

The Make Sense campaign's petition demands immediate… Read more Audio

A witness has told the coroners court she feels let down by the police officers investigating the disappearance of John Beckenridge and his 11-year-old stepson Mike.

The pair were last seen in the… Read more Audio

The great-grandmother tasered by New South Wales police at her nursing home last week has died.

95-year-old Clare Nowland, who had dementia, was hospitalised in a critical condition after falling and… Read more Audio

Wellington's Adelaide road has reopened to all traffic this morning, for the first time since last week's fatal fire at the Loafers Lodge hostel.

The busy road has been open to just southbound… Read more Audio

The pain of inflation may have peaked.

The Reserve Bank hiked the official cash rate by 25 basis points yesterday to 5.5%, and signalled that might be as high as it will go.

But it says we aren't… Read more Audio