Morning Report

More rain forecast for the lower North Island is worrying a community hit by severe slips last week.

Two families in Stokes Valley were evacuated from their homes on Thursday night after they were… Read more Audio

In Northland, it has been a case of water water everywhere. While the heavy rain and strong wind warnings have been lifted, surface flooding and high tides are still severely affecting the roads.

The… Read more Audio

All eyes are now turning to the South Island as the bad weather moves in - again.

The front is making its way down the motu after hiting Northland yesterday leaving it soggy with slips and flooding -… Read more Audio

A human clinical trial of a potentially life enhancing gene therapy has started thanks to some very special sheep from Lincoln University.

Batten disease is a devastating neurological condition which… Read more Audio

School principals have been vocal in their warnings about the health and wellbeing of children and staff this winter, after the third term began yesterday.

But new data revealed by the Educational… Read more Audio

Political analyst Dr Bryce Edwards says the leadership battle rocking the Green Party is still anyone's game.

James Shaw is the only declared candidate so far for the co-leadership and his likely… Read more Audio

Pope Francis apologised for the Catholic Church's role in decades of abuse of indigenous children in Canada this morning.

Indigenous leaders have long called for a papal apology for the physical… Read more Audio

The government's being told to urgently close a legal loophole in the rules for political party donations that experts say make this country ripe for overseas exploitation.

It's been brought to a… Read more Audio

Police have new information in the unsolved murder of Canterbury teenager Kirsty Bently, and now believe her killer was likely to have been a cannabis user living in Ashburton.

The Canterbury… Read more Audio

Wild weather is expected to continue moving across the South today, and in Canterbury local Civil Defence will be moving to assist the locals cope with periods of hard rain that's expected to continue… Read more Audio

People across the country are waking up to heavy rain this morning. Weather warnings have now lifted across Northland, Auckland, but the Bay of Plenty isn't expected to escape that until later this… Read more Audio