Morning Report

Banks are coming under fire for their big profits. 

Yesterday ANZ  reported a profit of $1.92 billion, up 44 percent on last year.

Kiwisaver provider Simplicity chief executive Sam Stubbs says it's… Read more Audio

An advocacy group for Kiwis stuck overseas says changes to managed isolation stays will benefit those with existing bookings, but not those without one.

From 15 November most international travellers… Read more Audio

More than a thousand fake bookings are hampering vaccination efforts in Gisborne and the East Coast.

Tairāwhiti is the region with the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rates.

Reporter Tom Kitchin has… Read more Audio

The government and Auckland Council have just released their recommendations on Auckland's controversial light rail plan, a year after New Zealand First put a halt to the project. 

There are three… Read more Audio

Reports that one of the two Covid-19 positive cases in Christchurch is a truck driver who carried out deliveries around the city for four days during their infectious period has many South Islanders… Read more Audio

A public health expert thinks officials have dismissed the need for tighter internal border controls and may fail to stop the spread of Covid-19 in Christchurch as a result.

Two unvaccinated people… Read more Audio

Christchurch residents are upset and angry the virus is back in their city after nearly a year of being free of it. Two positive cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the suburb of Bishopdale yesterday.

Two people have been arrested in the anti-vaccination protest at the Auckland border.

The so-called hikoi started on Tuesday night, when the convoy left Rotorua, hoping to cross Covid-19 alert level… Read more Audio

Trucking companies say a vaccine mandate at regional borders would be a problem because they are already struggling with a driver shortage and fragile supply chain.

The government is looking at… Read more Audio

Residents in the Christchurch suburb of Bishopdale where the Covid-19 infected couple live, are upset and angry the virus is back after nearly a year of being free of it.

Business was brisk at a… Read more Audio