Morning Report

Banks are continuing to rack up record profits.

Collective profits for the sector were up just over 8 percent to $1.7 billion in the first quarter through cost cutting, improved lending and margins.

People living along Wellington's exposed South Coast are demanding faster action to protect them from the rising sea.

They know the reality of climate change better than most and more than a hundred… Read more Audio

Year ten students are trialling new high-stakes tests of maths, writing and reading in schools this week.

From 2024, teenagers must pass all three online tests to get any level of the NCEA school… Read more Audio

The young Timaru driver who killed five teenage boys when he crashed into a power pole last year is starting a two and half year prison sentence the grieving families say is not enough.

Tyreese… Read more Audio

Drug-buyer Pharmac is urging 36,000 people taking a blood pressure drug to change to another treatment because of a cancer risk.

The agency says the drug branded Accuretic, supplied by Pfizer… Read more Audio

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called Russia's war on Ukraine "the biggest security crisis since World War Two" and he says leaders are committed to supporting Ukraine for as long as it… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has urged NATO leaders not to allow the war in Ukraine to trigger an arms race.

Ms Ardern participated in the leaders summit in Madrid on Wednesday night, where she… Read more Audio

The National Party says the government's plan to overhaul Wellington's transport system won't get the city moving.

The revamp of the city's infrastructure would have light rail built across town, an… Read more Audio