Morning Report

Is Auckland's beleaguered city centre finally making a comeback? 

Recent years have seen road works, lockdowns and a spike in crime hit the CBD hard. 

However, some businesses and locals say things… Read more Audio

Federated Farmers are praising the Government's Severe Weather Emergency Legislation Bill, which aims to speed up the recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle. 

The Bill will remove red tape by letting rural… Read more Audio

Experts are calling for a limit on the number and location of vape shops to combat what they say is an epidemic of vaping among rangatahi.

Public submissions to the Smoked Tobacco Regulatory Regime… Read more Audio

For the mud-caked residents and volunteers of Hawkes Bay, cleaning clothes can make a hard day even tougher.

But a new group is hoping to spin that around by collecting, washing and drying their… Read more Audio

So much rain has fallen on and around Gisborne that the water table is pretty much at or even above ground level. 

Council scientists say it's unprecedented and risky for the city - at the moment… Read more Audio

More than 100 homes in Lower Hutt's Point Howard are still without water and many residents chose to evacuate last night after a landslip caused by a burst water pipe. 

A resident we spoke to earlier… Read more Audio

Today marks four years since the March 15 terror attacks in Christchurch, day described by former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as one of our darkest days. 

The friends and families of the 51 people… Read more Audio

Climate change is an "existential threat to everyone on spaceship Earth" according to NASA's deputy administrator Colonel Pam Melroy.

She, and her boss Bill Nelson, are in New Zealand this week… Read more Audio