Morning Report

Boris Johnson has said farewell, and Liz Truss has delivered her first speech as UK Prime Minister.

BBC correspondent Rob Watson spoke to Susie Ferguson. Read more Audio

The Mayor of the Far North is unhappy, saying Northland was put into lockdown for 11 days last October for no reason.

RNZ this morning revealed that the two women with Covid-19 who sparked a lockdown… Read more Audio

Wellington's Mt Victoria bus tunnel is closed after debris from the hillside above it fell on a bus yesterday.

Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard Maclean spoke to Susie Ferguson. Read more Audio

National leader Christopher Luxon believes the government's plan to tackle youth crime fails to address sanctions for repeated offenders.

A new package has been unveiled to tackle youth crime… Read more Audio

Canada's largest manhunt continues, after a string of fatal stabbings in the Saskatchewan province on Sunday.

The body of one of the suspects Damien Sanderson has been found but his brother Myles is… Read more Audio

A defence lawyer for a businessman at the centre of a political donations trial has told the court his client did not conceal his identity.

The lengthy judge-alone trial in the High Court in Auckland… Read more Audio

Major foreign tech companies with billions to spend on data centres have been strongly wooing the Government.

Seven of them, including global giants Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, sought… Read more Audio

In her first speech as British Prime Minister Liz Truss promised to "get Britons working again", solve the energy crisis and fix the NHS - no small order.

Appearing outside 10 Downing Street she… Read more Audio

A police investigation into the women who prompted an 11-day lockdown in Northland last year shows police didn't lay charges because the women got sick, and couldn't work the jobs they said they… Read more Audio

The whānau of two Māori students who attend Epsom Girls' Grammar say they are upset their children were  asked to perform a karakia on a human skeleton found at the prestigious Auckland school. 

They… Read more Audio

High failure rates in a trial-run of new NCEA literacy and numeracy tests are alarming principals.

One school head told RNZ all their students failed the writing test and others reported pass rates… Read more Audio