Morning Report

More trucks are being fitted with safety systems, and handbrake testing is changing, to guard against potentially fatal accidents.

Several people have been killed in recent years by runaway trucks… Read more Audio

A homeless mother with six young children and a newborn had to pitch a tent during a storm after she said Work and Income declined to help her.

Mariska Kruger, from Napier, says the agency knew about… Read more Audio

The Commerce Commission's grocery study into the "supermarket duopoly" and its recommendations have just been released.

RNZ business reporter Nicholas Pointon outlined the key findings to Corin Dann.

School principals are struggling to get rapid antigen tests, making Covid even more challenging for students and staff.

There have been 25,000 cases in schools and early learning services in the last… Read more Audio

A Covid-19 modeller says there's a chance Aotearoa will experience twin peaks in its Omicron outbreak because of the early explosion of numbers in Auckland.

University of Canterbury mathematics… Read more Audio

Parliament will urgently pass a law this week, to place targeted sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin, and loyal supporters of his regime, over the invasion of Ukraine.

The Russia… Read more Audio

With the borders now open for vaccinated New Zealanders to fly in and out without a stint in self-isolation, travellers are urged it's a case of 'buyer beware'.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and… Read more Audio

A new report suggests that working from home is more challenging for women than men.

The ASB/NZIER research shows that women are less likely to have ideal equipment and more likely to be lumbered… Read more Audio

Emergency ambulance services around the country have recorded their highest-ever number of 111 calls this past weekend.

On Sunday alone, St John and Wellington Free Ambulance recorded 2322 calls for… Read more Audio

Doctors are stepping up to cover nursing shifts as staff absences reach a critical point at Middlemore Hospital.

There were 195 people in the south Auckland hospital with Covid yesterday - a total of… Read more Audio

A homeless mother with seven young children says she had to pitch a tent in a park during a storm after Work and Income told her it couldn't help.

Mariska Kruger, from Napier, says despite the agency… Read more Audio