Morning Report

Auckland students are struggling to deal with the uncertainty around schools reopening.

Minister Chris Hipkins will provide further advice on face-to-face learning today. With exams looming, the… Read more Audio

Consumer New Zealand and the Food and Grocery Council have written to MPs urging them to back an overhaul of the supermarket industry.

The organisations say consumers and suppliers are being held to… Read more Audio

The Minister of Housing is downplaying the suggestion Mayors were blindsided by new densification rules.

National and the government teamed-up to slash red tape by August 2022, with the aim of making… Read more Audio

Air quality experts are looking to the government's pandemic school plan due out today to do more to protect students in classrooms.

They have just met with the Ministries of education and health to… Read more Audio

Waiheke Islanders have their fingers crossed the first ever case from the Covid-19 delta outbreak will be their last.

The person had been tested on the mainland in Auckland, but travelled to the… Read more Audio

The Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency says more than 90 percent of Māori would've received both doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by now, if its vaccine rollout proposal it handed to ministers in… Read more Audio

The Covid-19 vaccination programme in Taranaki may need to rollover into next year to get Māori in the region up beyond a 90 percent vaccination rate.

Just 62 percent of Taranaki Māori have received… Read more Audio

There are growing calls for the government to waive NCEA exams for students in Auckland.

Principals are floating options including cancelling level one exams or allowing teens in the region to choose… Read more Audio

While many mayors support the new Housing Supply Bill, some say it won't work without better infrastructure funding.

National and Labour have joined forces to design new housing density rules, which… Read more Audio

Skill shortages, limited infrastructure, and rampant material costs are stopping houses being built and an incoming law change won't fix that.

That's the take of Auckland city's planning committee… Read more Audio

A Covid-19 modeller says daily numbers could top out at around 150,200 cases a day by the middle of November, but New Zealand is also risking a New South Wales-style blowout.

The country hit a new… Read more Audio