Morning Report

Time for a sports flashback. It's five months ago, the second cricket test between India against New Zealand in Mumbai.

Of course it was Black Caps spinner Ajaz Patel taking all 10 wickets in an… Read more Audio

Some immigrants are applying for refugee status because they've tested positive for HIV in New Zealand and are worried the government will kick them out.

Immigration rules mean people with HIV… Read more Audio

Proposed law changes aim to remove the handbrake on the slow management of national parks and conservation land.

The Department of Conservation manages more than 4600 active concessions and receives… Read more Audio

Emergency department staff at Christchurch Hospital are still being punched, spat on, sworn at and sexually harassed by patients, despite efforts to stem the violence and aggression.

Recorded rates… Read more Audio

The Department of Conservation's Great Walks bookings have opened this week - but many were full within just a couple of minutes.

Huts and campsites at the Kepler, Milford and Tongariro Northern… Read more Audio

An independent review into the New Zealand Broadcasting School in Christchurch has found the school fosters a toxic learning environment where sexual harassment, bullying and harmful behaviour was… Read more Audio

Ruapehu Civil Defence officials have spent part of this week working on plan if there is an eruption.

The central plateau volcano had its strongest tremors in two decades and plumes of steam were… Read more Audio

Auckland Council has endorsed the business case for a $306 million dollar plan to construct cycleways in the city.

It means construction will now be sped up, but the topic is still proving divisive… Read more Audio

Nearly 15 million people around the world are believed to have died either directly, or indirectly, from Covid-19 - an estimate that's nearly triple the official death toll.

That figure from the… Read more Audio

The Dow has fallen 1000 points and The Nasdaq has lost nearly 5 percent in the worst day of the year for US stock markets.

It comes after a rally yesterday that has overnight been erased and some.

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A Bay of Plenty regional councillor says he has been racially abused relentlessly for wearing moko mataora - a Māori facial tattoo.

Stacey Te Pohue Rose received a blessing from a kaumātua and… Read more Audio

Ukraine says Russian forces have launched an all-out assault on the steelworks in Mariupol to try to eliminate those defending the plant.

Another group of evacuees have arrived in Zaporizhzhia -… Read more Audio