Morning Report

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

The tourism and hospitality industries are racing to find ways to attract and retain more staff.

They will need an estimated 80,000 new workers over the next five years.

Leaders of the sector have… Read more Audio

Tauranga leaders are frustrated locals haven't turned out in force to get tested and vaccinated for Covid-19, now that the virus has popped up in the region.

Two new cases were detected in the Bay of… Read more Audio

Mangroves are home to New Zealand's most endangered bird, the fairy tern or tara iti, and now, its habitat has been given legal protection.

The High Court has ruled mangroves are to fall under… Read more Audio

The number of daily Covid-19 cases registered in Germany has soared to 65,000 - by far the highest figure there since the pandemic began.

Germany's Parliament is scrambling in the wake of the… Read more Audio