Morning Report

Banks profits hit a record high of nearly $7.2-billion dollars last year - 17-percent higher than the year before - despite a slowing economy, rising interest rates, and strong inflation. 

Eighty… Read more Audio

The government says it's freeing up more money and more "bandwidth" to help it focus on cost of living pressures, by slashing a bunch of its more unpopular policies.

Speed limit reductions are… Read more Audio

Three days after he was suspended by the BBC, presenter and former footballer Gary Lineker will be allowed back on air.

In a statement the broadcaster's director-general Tim Davy apologised for the… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says the Government is cutting its cloth to suit the times.

To do that it is axing or amending a swathe of policies and programmes - including ditching the… Read more Audio

Less than two months into Chris Hipkins' time as Prime Minister and the Government's agenda is looking much slimmer.

Hipkins has axed - or amended - a swathe of programmes in his second policy purge… Read more Audio

In Napier as the clean-up continues, crime appears to be trending downwards.

Corin Dann spoke to Napier mayor Kirsten Wise, who told him now is the right time to lift the State of Emergency.
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After 28 days the national state of emergency for Tai Rāwhiti and Hawke's Bay ends on Tuesday morning and the two regions now enter the cyclone recovery phase.

They join Northland, Auckland, Waikato… Read more Audio