Morning Report

Organisers of a hunting contest in the South Island have made a U-turn after receiving what they describe as "vile emails and messages".

The North Canterbury Hunting Competition planned to give $250… Read more Audio

Not many forestry workers look at a pine cone and wonder how they could turn it into food - but that's just how Pinoli Pine Nuts began.

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A settlement has been reached in the $2.5b (NZD) defamation suit involving Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News.

Dominion was seeking compensation from Fox, alleging the broadcaster knowingly defamed… Read more Audio

A group opposed to the transformation of farm land into carbon sinks says the National Party should go further than just banning foreign investment in the practice.

50 Shades of Green was formed in… Read more Audio

The New Zealand Army has signed a pact with the Australian Army creating a formalised framework for better cooperation.

Dubbed Plan ANZAC, it will include strategic engagement between the two armies… Read more Audio

Otago landowners are fighting to stop their properties from being rezoned, saying tougher flood hazard rules could make them uninsurable and unsellable.

They live in the Gordon Road Floodway which… Read more Audio

Auckland singer songwriter Princess Chelsea has taken out the TAITE Music Prize - the top award at the TAITE Music Awards.

Princess Chelsea's album, 'Everything's Going to be Alright,' was described… Read more Audio

The National Party is pledging to cut excessive red tape which it says is tying up farmers and costing the economy.

In an announcement later this morning, party leader Christopher Luxon will unveil… Read more Audio

The Gore District Council has been paralysed for months over the fallout of the fractured relationship between its mayor and chief executive.

That was the way chief executive Stephen Parry summed it… Read more Audio

The trial in the $2.5b (NZD) defamation suit involving Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News is still waiting to get underway.

Opening statements are set to begin this morning but have been delayed… Read more Audio

An Auckland councillor says the mayor and the chief executive need to have a better relationship.

A review of the council's flood response found that the communication between key leaders was… Read more Audio