Morning Report

Pet food shortages have been exacerbated over lockdown, clearing out supermarket shelves faster than normal.

Global shipping challenges have led to less pet food in the aisles for some months, with… Read more Audio

Stressed owners of small businesses say covid restrictions are pushing them to breaking point and are pleading for more support.

Business New Zealand and the National Party are taking up their cause.

Professor Lindsay Matthews, from the University of Auckland, has been spending a lot of time toilet training the young - young cows, that is.

In a peer-reviewed study published today in Current… Read more Audio

Horticulture is making a comeback in Taranaki.

Avocado and kiwifruit orchards are being planted in numbers not seen since 1988 - when the devastation of Cyclone Bola forced many to convert to dairy.

Around 3500 customers throughout the South Island's West Coast are still without cellphone reception, more than 24 hours after the network went down in wild weather yesterday.

The outage started just… Read more Audio

You could probably write a book about what's happening in locked down Auckland, but publishers in the city would be hard pressed to do much with it under the level 4 rules.

After last year's big… Read more Audio

A new study is highlighting significant health inequities between New Zealanders living with multiple sclerosis and their Australian counterparts.

The study found that Australians with the… Read more Audio

Increasing numbers of people are using the web, apps and social media to learn te reo Māori and promote the language. 

Surveys suggest most Māori aren't learning te reo in the classroom - but instead… Read more Audio

Coastal shipping proponents say money allocated by the Transport Agency needs to go on getting another ship up and running immediately, not another study.

Thirty million dollars over three years has… Read more Audio