Morning Report

Inspectors charged with making sure the aerospace industry is safe are so overworked it has been causing their own health and safety problems.

This comes from ministerial briefings by the regulators… Read more Audio

For some west Auckland residents, last month's catastrophic floods weren't the first time their homes had been affected by an extreme weather event.

In August 2021, several properties in Swanson were… Read more Audio

It's been a big week already for New Zealand's political leaders.

They were all in attendance at Waitangi at the weekend giving messages of unity and aspiration for Māori.

In the aftermath, Prime… Read more Audio

More than 6000 are confirmed dead in Turkey and Syria after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Monday. 

And the World Health Organisation is warning the death toll could rise to more than 20,000 people.

More than 6000 people were killed and 15,000 injured in Turkey and over the border in Syria when the quake struck in the early hours of Monday.

Rescuers are battling heavy rain and snow as they race… Read more Audio

It's our summer game, but for years few women were playing cricket. In recent summers though that's been changing and new teams are taking the field.

Some women are playing for the first time, while… Read more Audio

The National Party leader Christopher Luxon made his first appearance as leader at Waitangi over the weekend, distancing himself from previous iterations of the National Party.

Luxon said the Don… Read more Audio

The Corrections Association says an Auckland jail should have been locked down when two men rampaged on Sunday.

Prisoners at Mt Eden Corrections Facility smashed a ping-pong table and tried to break… Read more Audio

Education Ministry figures show serious truancy spiked in 2022. 

The Attendance Service dealt with nearly 29,000 cases, - 40  percent or 8500 more than in 2021.

This year the ministry has nearly… Read more Audio