Morning Report

A Far North pub named as a location of interest got cracking and did all the right things, when the story went around that a punter with Covid-19 had been in the bar.

Awanui Hotel publican Eddie… Read more Audio

Principals estimate several thousand teachers are resisting the government's directive to get vaccinated before 15 November.

Some are presenting bogus exemption certificates and the Education… Read more Audio

A husband-and-wife pair of suspected spies are not allowed to see the evidence they would need to look at in order to appeal an immigration decision made against them.

The decision turned on the SIS… Read more Audio

A commercial airline pilot accused of being at risk of killing all his passengers is celebrating his win after a scathing court judgment against the Civil Aviation Authority.

The judge said that the… Read more Audio

NZ-bred horse Verry Elleegant has won the Melbourne Cup - and one of her owners is just seventeen.

Connor Harrison first met Verry Elleegant when he was helping out at racing stables near him home.

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New Zealand hasn't yet signed a global initiative announced overnight to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas methane by 2030.

More than 80 countries have already reportedly signed up to the… Read more Audio

There have been two major pledges made overnight at COP26 - an end and reversal of deforestation by 2030, and slashing emissions of the greenhouse gas methane - also by 2030.

They were made at the… Read more Audio

National Party leader Judith Collins says a trip by the Prime Minister to locked-down Tāmaki Makaurau is long overdue.

Jacinda Ardern is expected to visit Auckland next week, now Parliament's Speaker… Read more Audio

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says they are still waiting on geonomic testing from the positive cases in Taipa.   

He told Morning Report contact tracers are exploring any possible links… Read more Audio

Whangārei's dilapidated, decaying hospital is preparing for an influx of Covid-19 cases, and staff say it's only a matter of time before bed space runs out.

The Northland DHB has been trying to get… Read more Audio

People in the Far North are waking up to increased Covid-19 restrictions.

The emergence of two unlinked cases in the township of Taipa has prompted a snap shift in upper Northland from level 2 to… Read more Audio