Morning Report

Residents in Buller continue to be warned evacuations are very possible in coming days.

The heavy rain is expected to ramp up today and continue through to the weekend.

A state of emergency is in… Read more Audio

The government is looking to introduce an unemployment insurance scheme that will offer ACC-like payments to people who lose their jobs because of redundancy or illness rather than just accidents.

It… Read more Audio

For the first time in its 34-year history, the West Coast's Wildfoods Festival has been postponed.

Festival organisers say it hasn't been cancelled, only put off until 11 March next year.

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Scientists are working on a groundbreaking screening test that could predict the risk of four cancers from samples collected from a routine cervical screening.

Researchers say the test will be a game… Read more Audio

Boosters are being bolstered around the country, with the wait time between second and third doses shortened to 3 months.

More needles are going into more arms and the bravest of us can feel a little… Read more Audio

The US President Joe Biden has approved sending troops to Romania, Poland and Germany as tensions build up at the Russia Ukraine border.

Around 2000 soldiers will be sent from North Carolina, to… Read more Audio

Families enduring five-week MIQ stays after testing positive for Covid-19, are among the voices calling for a shift to self-isolation for returnees.

Some are purposely trying to make each other sick… Read more Audio

State house tenants who terrorise their neighbours can now be moved on faster after Kāinga Ora changed its complaints process.

The state landlord came under scrutiny last year over its 'sustaining… Read more Audio

China's capital Beijing is poised and ready for the launch of the 24th Winter Olympics tomorrow.

Two-hundred-and-fifty people have tested positive on arrival in China, but so far that's within the… Read more Audio

As of tomorrow, the wait to get a Pfizer booster dose after a second jab will drop from four months to three.

The change makes another million people aged 18 and over eligible for the third shot.

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State Highway 6 in South Westland is closed, as heavy rain continues to pile onto the West Coast.

Overflow from the waterfalls in the Haast Valley is running down the highway at the Mahi Tahi River… Read more Audio

An overseas recruitment campaign targeting specialist nurses will go live this week, but critics say two years into the pandemic, and with Omicron on the doorstep - it's far too late.

Last November… Read more Audio