Morning Report

Imagine paying $100,000 a year just to insure your house.

That's the reality facing some homeowners in the near future, according to a climate economist and modeller.

Climate Sigma managing director… Read more Audio

Ocean View Rd is closed in Hillcrest between Pupuke Rd and Alton Ave due to an overnight police incident.

Finn Blackwell is at the scene Read more Audio

Heavy rain warnings for Buller and Westland were upgraded to red by MetService yesterday, with the chance of dangerous river conditions, significant flooding, and slips blocking roads and possibly… Read more Audio

Students at a Hastings college have been sneaking Uber Eats at lunchtime. Hastings Boys' High School, which offers all its 800 students free lunches, has now banned them from ordering the takeaways.

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Some Rotorua locals say it's only a matter of time before businesses take the law into their own hands to combat a spate of ram raids and other crimes.

Frustrated residents and shop owners met with… Read more Audio

National Party leader Christopher Luxon is standing by his party's opposition to the so-called "waka jumping" legislation, which allows the Speaker to remove MPs who have left their party.

Labour's… Read more Audio

The principal of Christchurch's Te Aratai College says voters should do their research on candidates standing in his school's board elections.

White supremacist Philip Arps was sentenced to 21 months… Read more Audio

Allegations of racism, sexual assault, homophobia, bullying and actively discouraging victims from going to the police are contained in a leaked copy of an investigation into Arise Church.

RNZ has… Read more Audio

The Reserve Bank is expected to deliver a fourth consecutive 50 basis point rise in the official cash rate later today.

This would take the OCR to a seven-year high of 3 percent, as the Reserve Bank… Read more Audio

An expert in climate risk is predicting in just 20 years a million dollar property on the Petone foreshore in Wellington could cost $100,000 dollars a year to insure.

Belinda Storey, from Climate… Read more Audio