Morning Report

As New Zealand readies for more Covid-19 cases, warnings about the ability of public hospitals to cope, are escalating.

There are 289 Intensive Care Unit or High Dependency Unit beds at the moment… Read more Audio

A blood micromoon lunar eclipse will descend over Aotearoa's skies this evening at just after 8 o'clock.

The near-total elipse will be the longest of its type to reach New Zealand since the year… Read more Audio

A ski company has plans to expand its ski fields in Queenstown, which would see a 230-metre tunnel through conservation land.

NZSki is seeking permission from the Department of Conservation to open… Read more Audio

Māori leaders are calling for an investigation into the government's pandemic response, which they say, is prejudiced against tangata whenua.

The Māori Council and other senior leaders have filed an… Read more Audio

A New Zealand emergency team sent to Papua New Guinea this week to support the Covid-19 response wants to give local health workers more confidence about treating the virus.

PNG has been struggling… Read more Audio

A traffic light Christmas is on the way, but freedoms will depend on the level of vaccination.

So what can the South Island expect?

Timonthy Brown reports. Read more Audio

Fire investigators say a short circuit on a powerpole caused the Lake Ōhau scrub fire. Insurance costs for the October 2020 fire are sitting at more than $35 million.

It claimed more than 5,000… Read more Audio

The Government can't say what it would take for a Kainga Ora tenant to get kicked out of a state home.

It denies it has a hard-line 'no eviction' policy despite not evicting any Kainga Ora tenants in… Read more Audio

Some principals are surprised and angry that there's been no attempt to keep unvaccinated parents out of schools.

Just days after banning unvaccinated teachers from work, the Education Ministry… Read more Audio

The Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, says the worst-case scenario Covid-19 modelling for when the Auckland border reopens, is 16,000 cases a week during January.

But that the country is… Read more Audio

Householders face losing over a billion dollars worth of sunlight and views under radical housing intensification law changes.

A government cost-benefit analysis puts these price tags on the plans to… Read more Audio