Morning Report

Labour says this year's Budget was simply "not the time" to overhaul Working for Families - but it has promised to spell out its plan before the election.

The Government put the multi-billion dollar… Read more Audio

More than 120 firefighters and 30 trucks were sent to Surrey Hills in Sydney at about 6pm NZT, when flames erupted from within the multi-storey former hat factory.

It sparked chaotic scenes in the… Read more Audio

Ill treatment of a kiwi at Miami Zoo sparked outrage this week, now the Department of Conservation is investigating practices at a private sanctuary on New Zealand soil.

The Cape Sanctuary in Hawke's… Read more Audio

Orthopaedic surgeons are offering to replace some private patients with public ones which could provide relief for 2000 people waiting for operations.

However, clinicians say at least 500 people… Read more Audio

35 years after the Wairoa River burst its banks during Cyclone Bola - and three months after the same thing happened in Cyclone Gabrielle - plans are finally being laid to safeguard the community… Read more Audio

A $33 million dollar budget hole is pressing Victoria University to consider axing up to 260 of its staff.

Vice-chancellor Nic Smith has told employees that up to 110 academic jobs and 150 general… Read more Audio

National and Act could form the next government, according to the latest 1News Kantar Public Poll.

The National Party is up three points to 37%, while Labour is down one point to 35%.

With Act… Read more Audio

Documents released to RNZ show the government turned down an offer by Spark to invest millions in network resilience.

The offer came in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle - when phone and internet… Read more Audio

An independent report has cleared Crown Law of any wrongdoing despite it failing to act on evidence of Alan Hall's innocence four years ago.

The Supreme Court last year cleared Mr Hall of the 1985… Read more Audio

One of the women targeted by the brothers convicted of rape and drink-spiking at Christchurch bar Mama Hooch says she is relieved the pair's identities have been revealed.

Danny and Roberto Jaz were… Read more Audio