Morning Report

Highly confidential meetings where Pharmac ranks the funding priority of potentially life saving medicines are open to its entire staff including admin workers with no medical experience.

Pharmac… Read more Audio

For the second consecutive year, there has been a rise in cot death.

The number of fatalities is now 30 percent higher than in 2017 - the same year a government programme was launched to reduce the… Read more Audio

Insurgent Taliban forces have taken control of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul.

New Zealand journalist Jon Stephenson, who was in Afghanistan when US forces invaded 20 years ago and has closely… Read more Audio

Recovery efforts are ongoing following a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti on Saturday.

More than 700 have died in the tragedy, and almost 300 are injured. Now Haiti is also bracing for a tropical… Read more Audio

There have still been no arrests after three teenagers were stabbed at a Christchurch party, with one losing their life.

Sixteen-year-old Zion Purukamu died from his injuries while the other two… Read more Audio

Cabinet will decide today whether New Zealand can evacuate fewer than 40 Afghanistan nationals who supported our military efforts there.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Corin Dann the Ministry… Read more Audio

The Taliban are close to retaking full control of Afghanistan, almost two decades after being ousted by a US-led military coalition.

Emboldened by the withdrawal of the US troops, they now control… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

There have still been no arrests after three teenagers were stabbed at a Christchurch party, with one losing their life.

Sixteen-year-old Zion Purukamu died from his injuries while the other two… Read more Audio

An expert says an increase in families living in poverty has contributed to a rise in the number of babies dying of cot death.

Māori and Pasifika babies are more likely to die of what's now known as… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

Whangarei Maori say the benefits reaped from the Marsden Point oil refinery are drying up.

Hundreds of jobs are set to go next year when the refinery changes to an import terminal. The speed of… Read more Audio