Morning Report

The Chiefs have sewn up the top spot on the ladder with one weekend to spare, beating the top ranked Australian side, the Brumbies, 31-21 in Canberra.

They've only lost one game all year.

RNZ sport… Read more Audio

The World Champion Black Ferns have a big year ahead.

There are more top-level tests on home soil than ever before, and the players will have to get used to a new coaching staff.

The team had their… Read more Audio

The Auckland Stars overcame a four-goal halftime deficit to beat the Central Pulse in their elimination final in Porirua last night, making the ANZ Premiership final.

The Pulse lead 29-25 at the… Read more Audio

The country's ethnic business leaders say they want to be included in mainstream business networks.

More than 100 leaders and two MPs attended the first business forum for the ethnic community, held… Read more Audio

A construction expert says the National Party needs to invest in infrastructure to be able to deliver on their housing plans.

Yesterday, National announced its Going for Housing Growth Plan to… Read more Audio

Electioneering is now in full swing, with both major parties running attack lines about the prospect of the other running the country, come October.

Labour held its election year congress in… Read more Audio

The National Party has withdrawn from a bipartisan housing policy it helped draft.

The Medium Density Residential Standards were viewed by some as a gamechanger in helping the country address its… Read more Audio

A teenager, who has spent his entire life in care, says the system is failing the mental health needs of vulnerable rangatahi.

A recent Mental Health Wellbeing Commission report found a quarter of 12… Read more Audio

President Biden and the Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement in principle on a new government debt limit, after weeks of bitter negotiations.

Joe Biden said the deal was… Read more Audio