Morning Report

As we're reporting this morning, dozens of cafe, restaurant and venue owners in central Auckland say they are on the brink of bankruptcy, with the looming Omicron wave keeping customers away.

Yael… Read more Audio

Up to 50 police have deployed a short time ago at the scene of the protest encampment at parliament. 

The Speaker has authorised the closure of the Parliamentary precinct, if the police deem it… Read more Audio

Westport has been cut off by heavy rain and parts of the town are braced for evacuation.

A week after the last flooding in the Buller region, 160 millimetres of rain overnight rain has caught locals… Read more Audio

A group of New Zealand-trained nurses - some working with Covid-19 patients - are considering leaving the country because they can't get a visa to live here.

That's despite a nursing shortage so big… Read more Audio

Dozens of cafe, resturant and venue owners in central Auckland say they are on the brink of bankruptcy, with the looming Omicron wave keeping customers away.

More than 60 have signed an open letter… Read more Audio

The road transport industry is adding its voice to calls for the government to sort out ongoing delays to Wellington's Transmission Gully highway.

Road surfacing problems are the latest issue… Read more Audio

Porirua Mayor Anita Baker is livid and wants answers about the Transmission Gully highway north of Wellington.

The billion-dollar 27km road project has missed five opening-day deadlines in two years.

Wellington Mayor Andy Foster admits they have lost control of part of the city as a protest around the Parliament area enters its third day.

Anti-vaccine mandate protestors have descended on the city… Read more Audio

Tame Iti has been a life-long activist, and in the 70's camped out by the steps of power alongside members of the group Nga Tamatoa.

But when it comes to the anti-vaccine protest happening at… Read more Audio

Epidemiologist Michael Baker says the protest at Parliament has all the ingredients to become a superspreader event.

The protest, which is on the grounds of Parliament and surrounding streets, has… Read more Audio

Wellington is waking this morning to the continued occupation of Parliament grounds.

Hundreds of anti-Covid-19 vaccine mandate protesters spent a second night illegally camping despite being asked to… Read more Audio