Morning Report

Critics of the multimillion dollar Reading Recovery programme want it overhauled or even scrapped following new research showing it's left some children worse off.

The United States study found those… Read more Audio

Auckland council is voting today on a $2 billion cycling plan which would double the number of cycleways in the city.

Bike Auckland would like to see the plan brought in.

Its chair Tony Mitchell… Read more Audio

Auckland council is voting today on a $2 billion cycling plan which would double the number of cycleways in the city.

Josh Van Veen from the Auckland Ratepayers Alliance, says not one cent more… Read more Audio

The Government has unveiled an ambitious plan to cut the rapidly rising number of people waiting for non-urgent surgery in public hospitals.

Health Minister Andrew Little has set up a taskforce to… Read more Audio

A decision by the coroner to investigate the role social media played in the Christchurch terror attack has been called a "landmark moment".

In an earlier decision, the Coroner's Court ruled that the… Read more Audio

The Government is funding more driver licencing and training through a $86.5 million investment over four years, announced ahead of Budget 2022.

An estimated 64,000 New Zealanders will benefit from… Read more Audio

A specialist criminal court for young adults, known as the Young Adult List, is being launched in Gisborne today.

It's been developed to recognise that young adulthood is a time of increased… Read more Audio

A bureaucratic bungle left a disabled toddler stuck in Wellington Hospital for nearly three months.

Her mother had to provide intensive care-level nursing for her despite the rest of the family… Read more Audio

The number of children who've missed their free routine dental check-ups in Auckland has hit a record high and health authorities warn it'll take over a year to catch up.

The Auckland Regional Dental… Read more Audio

Parliament's Speaker Trevor Mallard has taken a hammering over his trespass order debacle which ended yesterday afternoon with an embarrassing backdown.

Having issued the two year bans to Winston… Read more Audio

A new plan to tackle long waiting lists for non-urgent surgery is being compared to opening a pandora's box.

The Government announced yesterday that public hospital waiting lists will be managed… Read more Audio