Morning Report

A new report shows Auckland's household carbon footprint is about 15 percent higher than the national average.

But, with food and transport among the largest drivers of emissions from households… Read more Audio

A new report has found communuity groups delivering services have wellbeing issues of their own.

Voluntary organisations are desperate for more funding with requests for help on the rise. And there's… Read more Audio

Health bosses desperate to recruit new cancer doctors to crisis-hit Dunedin Hospital, will need to sell them on cramped spaces and shuttling up and down the street.

Te Whatu Ora has pledged to fix… Read more Audio

A Tokomaru Bay cafe owner says his business is struggling to stay open after cyclone Gabrielle and more government support is needed urgently.

Trust Tairāwhiti which has been distributing the… Read more Audio

The Waitangi Tribunal will hear an urgent inquiry from the organisation which oversees Kura Kaupapa Māori later this month.

Te Runanga Nui's claim is against Crown practices which it argues continue… Read more Audio

The Council of Trade Unions wants the government to ban engineered stone benchtops due to the risks to workers from making the benches.

People manufacturing them are being exposed to dangerous levels… Read more Audio

One of the most keenly-awaited US media trials in decades was to have begun in a Delaware court this morning.

However, a judge overseeing the $2.5b defamation lawsuit against Fox News has delayed the… Read more Audio

The government is considering spending $257m to help regional council's fast-track 92 river flood protection projects.

The country's 16 regional councils, under the banner Te Uru Kahika, are planning… Read more Audio

One week out from ANZAC Day, the Returned and Services' Association has revealed it is pushing for a second national day to honour the country's war veterans.

RSA national president Sir Wayne… Read more Audio

Politicians are at odds over co-governance arrangements planned for the Three Waters rebrand.

The Labour government says some provisions in New Zealand wouldn't stand up to a purely academic… Read more Audio