Morning Report

A new attempt to break the deadlock in secondary teachers' pay talks is unlikely to stop further industrial action.

The Employment Relations Authority says it will start facilitated bargaining… Read more Audio

Restore passenger Rail protestors are out again in the capital, this time blocking Adelaide Road near the Basin Reserve.

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Hawke's Bay Civil Defence's emergency response structure was identified as needing to be "addressed with urgency" more than 18 months before Cyclone Gabrielle smashed through the region.

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The latest inflation figures are due out later today, and economists aren't expecting a dramatic change from the current 7.2 percent figure.

Analysis in the New Zealand Herald suggests people are now… Read more Audio

On the same day the police watchdog's report into the force's handling of last year's protest and three-week occupation of parliament is being released, a think tank's report into the government's… Read more Audio

The Agriculture Minister, Damien O'Connor, says the National Party's proposed 'Getting back to farming' policies would be a "backward step".

National unveiled a list of 19 proposals yesterday, such… Read more Audio

The National Party is promising to reverse a ban on live animal exports if it's elected to government.

The ban has only just come into effect, with the last shipment of animals leaving Napier this… Read more Audio

An agreement kept quiet for years by the government shows it embarked on a project for a US tech giant to push AI learning in schools.

The $2 trillion Microsoft corporation was also engaged to look… Read more Audio

Fox executives including Rupert Murdoch may have avoided having to take the stand after it settled the defamation suit taken against it by Dominion Voting Systems, but it now has another law suit… Read more Audio

Summer tourist numbers bounced back this year to about half of what they were pre-Covid.

Overall, as well as domestic travellers, we welcomed close to 900,000 overseas visitors.

That's about two… Read more Audio

Aotearoa is considering hosting the 2034 Commonwealth Games.

If successful it would be the fourth time we have held the games.

Christchurch has held it once and Auckland twice, in 1959 when it was… Read more Audio