Morning Report

The Education Ministry's latest figures show just 34 percent of Pasifika students attended school regularly in term four last year, half what it was at the same time a year earlier.

Overall, just… Read more Audio

Napier residents will be paying nearly 12 percent more in rates next year, after Napier City Council voted unanimously in favour of the increase.

The increase was set to be as high as 16 percent, but… Read more Audio

The National Party has committed to repealing two rental laws if they win the election, claiming Labour has waged a war on landlords with it's rules.

It plans to bring back no-cause terminations and… Read more Audio

Middlemore Hospital is promising it will be much harder for anyone to fake their way into a medical role, after a bogus doctor saw 80 patients.

31 year-old Yuvaraj Krishnan is starting a prison… Read more Audio

Businesses are hoping for raft of initiatives in this year's 'no frills' Budget.

The issues businesses want resolved includes everything from fixing skills shortages to a national roading plan, and… Read more Audio

Retired senior US military officers have been landing high-paying government jobs in New Zealand, including with our spy agency.

In 2020, the Government Communications Security Bureau hired an ex-US… Read more Audio

Lyttelton Port is seeing a revolving door of senior figures with two board members calling it quits this week.

Chairperson Margaret Devlin and board member Don Elder are the latest to step down, with… Read more Audio

An economist is calling this year's Budget a difficult balancing act between funding the cyclone recovery and curbing spending to help bring down inflation.

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins described… Read more Audio