Morning Report

Tourism operators say delays to booking Great Walks will cost them much-needed work.

The Department of Conservation has abandoned its plans to open most of the Great Walks for bookings yesterday and… Read more Audio

Auckland Council has a difficult decision to make about how to fill its gaping budget hole.

The council has released a summary of the record-breaking amount of feedback it received on its proposed… Read more Audio

One of the country's rich listers surveyed in a government report on who pays the most tax says he supports a capital gains tax as do most of the ultra-wealthy.

A two-year investigation by Inland… Read more Audio

Sudan is now more than half-way through a temporary 72-hour ceasefire allowing thousands of people to flee the country.

The UN says the shaky truce is holding, despite reports of sporadic gunfire and… Read more Audio

The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions is staggered by figures that show the country's richest families pay about half as much tax on their income as an average New Zealander.

The IRD investigation… Read more Audio

A shortage in geotech engineers across the country is hampering efforts to address insurance claims from Auckland residents, nine weeks after Cyclone Gabrielle.

Red stickered Muriwai residents want a… Read more Audio

A Taranaki woman says Immigration NZ's handling of an application for a visa to allow her to travel overseas, has soured what should have been the trip of a lifetime.

Victoria Lewis has never left… Read more Audio