Morning Report

Almost all Covid-19 restrictions have been scrapped after the Government did away with the Covid-19 Protection Framework overnight.

As at midnight, masks are only required in health and aged care… Read more Audio

You might get to hear Ngāti Porou's national anthem 'Paikea' sung live if you fly with Air Ruatoria. 

The little airline briefs its passengers in Te Reo Māori and is challenging Air New Zealand to do… Read more Audio

Aotearoa is this week marking 50 years since a petition that kick-started the revival of Te Reo Māori. 

In 1972, a group of students rallied signatures from around the country calling for a language… Read more Audio

Remote and isolated areas in Papua New Guinea's highlands have been hit hard by the magnitude 7.6 earthquake which struck on Saturday.

At least seven people have been killed but more casualties are… Read more Audio

Neighbours of a woman who died in a boating tragedy in Kaikōura say finding out how the boat capsized would give them closure.

Lower Hutt woman Susan Cade was among the five killed when a vessel -… Read more Audio

Covid-related restrictions - most of them anyway - are of course mostly now gone.

But Covid-19 hasn't gone, so does that leave us vulnerable to the virus?

Otago University epidemiologist Michael… Read more Audio

The Queen's coffin is now at rest in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, where a service of remembrance was held overnight.

King Charles III led a procession as it was taken from Holyroodhouse, where he… Read more Audio

After more than two and a half years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government has dropped almost all restrictions.

Masks are now only needed in hospitals or aged care facilities, vaccine requirements… Read more Audio

A family with four disabled children had their long-planned holiday ruined when they were turned away from their Jetstar flight after waiting in line to check in their daughter's wheelchair.

The… Read more Audio