Morning Report

Suction dredging is about to begin in a battle against a highly invasive seaweed taking hold at Aotea Great Barrier Island.

The caulerpa seaweed is capable of growing up to 3 centimetres a day.

It… Read more Audio

Images taken more than a million miles away show promising signs of life.

NASA's James Webb Telescope may have detected the presence of a molecule in planet K2-18b's atmosphere, which on Earth we… Read more Audio

A local iwi in the Horowhenua says burying the remains of a dead whale was a sad occasion, but a useful lesson for their young people.

A large New Zealand pygmy blue whale was found dead on the sands… Read more Audio

Tech giant Meta is under fire from a New Zealand-based businesswoman who's been locked out of Facebook's support function for a year.

Adding insult to injury, when she paid for the platform's new… Read more Audio

Passengers usually assume they're pretty safe when they hop on a bus.

But over the past five years,13,000 people have made claims to the Accident Compensation Corporation, after being injured on… Read more Audio

Annual water restrictions in Wellington take effect in two weeks and they might get stricter as summer approaches.

Drier temperatures brought on by the El Niño weather pattern - combined with myriad… Read more Audio

Scammers stole just over $4 million from New Zealanders between April and June - down by a quarter on the previous three months.

Despite that drop, more of us report being targeted by fraud attempts… Read more Audio

The country's record-breaking number of new migrants will put extra pressure on housing and inflation - but that's no reason to turn them away, say economists.

Stats NZ says the population has been… Read more Audio

One set of numbers, two political parties trying to tell the public what they mean after the government opened its books for pre-election scrutiny.

Labour says the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal… Read more Audio