Morning Report

The Prime Minister has a full day of business in front of her on Tuesday, and for the first time in more than two years it will not being conducted on local soil.

Jacinda Ardern is leading a… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister has touched down in Singapore - after clearing a pre-departure test - kicking off her first overseas trip in more than two years.

Jacinda Ardern arrived on the Boeing 757 at Changi… Read more Audio

The Easter holiday road toll stands at four this year, considerably down on last year's toll of nine. The official hoilday period ended at six this morning. Last year nine people died on the roads… Read more Audio

A group of Waiheke Island restaurants and bars have discovered the power of banding together to get them through tough Covid-19 times of staff shortages and scarce tourists.

They're co-ordinating… Read more Audio

An Auckland woman who had her breast cancer operation postponed twice is one of thousands caught up in delays caused by Omicron.

There were 2500 fewer planned surgeries carried out in Auckland in the… Read more Audio

Ratepayers have forked out more than $29 million over the past five years to install CCTV cameras.

But experts say they don't necessarily make our streets safer.

Here's data journalist Farah… Read more Audio

Investigations are underway into the shooting by police of a 22-year-old man on State Highway three north of New Plymouth on Saturday night.

It's the fifth fatal shooting by police in Taranaki since… Read more Audio

Māngere Budgeting Service chief executive Darryl Evans has resigned and the board of the high-profile charity has appointed a Queen's Counsel to oversee an inquiry into allegations former staff have… Read more Audio

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of new teachers have been under-paid since the start of the year.

They are getting $200 to $300 a week less than they should and some are struggling to get by.

It's an… Read more Audio

Hundreds of drunk drivers who are eligible, are not getting an alcohol interlock sentence - and even if they did, they'd probably get away with never having the device fitted to their vehicle.

Once… Read more Audio

To Ukraine, where government officials say missile strikes have killed at least seven people in the western city of Lviv, which had largely escaped attack until now.

Lviv's military commander says… Read more Audio