Morning Report

Republican candidates for the 2024 US election are gathering for the party's first debate, but there'll be a glaring absence.

Former President Donald Trump will skip the debate, instead leaving the… Read more Audio

Some principals say they are surprised by a spike in enrolments of new migrant students - many of whom do not speak English.

It's putting unique pressure on schools, now faced with teaching English… Read more Audio

The two brothers who routinely drugged and committed sexual offences against dozens of victims at Christchurch bar Mama Hooch are being sentenced Thursday.

Danny and Roberto Jaz used their positions… Read more Audio

The New Zealand Jewish Council says the ACT Party isn't the only political organisation needing to vet inflammatory speech during the electoral season.

This week the ACT candidate Elaine Naidu Franz… Read more Audio

Back to our main story now, 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… Read more Audio

Don McGlashan is a legend of the New Zealand music scene, his career has spanned renowned bands Blam Blam Blam, The Mutton Birds, and more recently, his own solo project.

And now, he's going to be… Read more Audio

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