Morning Report

Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon locked horns Tuesday night in their first televised campaign debate - a sometimes scrappy, but ultimately unspectacular affair.

The TVNZ debate saw the Labour and… Read more Audio

Petrol prices could be set to soar as high as $3.50 a litre with the cost of oil at its highest point in a year.

Brent Crude is edging towards $95 US per barrel. And S and P Global oil analyst… Read more Audio

A record number of pest traps - more than four tonnes in a single day - have been dropped into the lower North Island.

The Air Force used a NH90 helicopter to do the drop in the Ruahine Range.

The… Read more Audio

A furious row has erupted between Canada and India, after the Canadian Prime Minister announced potential links between the Indian government and the murder of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil.

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Climate scientists are blaming the ferocious gales that battered large parts of the country this week on the El Niño weather pattern joining forces with climate change in spring.

Meteorologist… Read more Audio

A Wellington homeowner awoken by a landslide crashing through her kitchen window a year ago is still battling to get her insurer to pay even a cent towards the huge costs of re-building a wrecked… Read more Audio

Candidates from the National and Labour parties are disavowing comments made in the past on fluoride and vaccines.

National's Hamilton East candidate Ryan Hamilton says he no longer opposes the… Read more Audio