Morning Report

Because of the lockdown in Victoria, Waikato cancer patients will most likely stay in this country to finish their treatment.

Australia had initially been considered as a possible option for care… Read more Audio

Rio Tinto is now saying it will pay $4 million to get rid of all aluminium dross and ouvea premix from Mataura and other sites around Southland.

Both the government and the Environmental Defence… Read more Audio

Government officials are scrambling to work out how the Australian Prime Minister can visit New Zealand this weekend without having to go into isolation.

Scott Morrison is scheduled to arrive in New… Read more Audio

The Australian state of Victoria is back in lockdown after a Covid-19 outbreak in Melbourne.

It's forced NZ to close the bubble with the state and ask 5000 people who visited the city and travelled… Read more Audio

Victoria is back in lockdown, and so are New Zealanders living and travelling there.

The state and its capital city Melbourne are in the grip of new Covid-19 outbreak and the highly infectious… Read more Audio

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

Cyclists in Wellington are set to get safe cycleways throughout the city after a last-minute turnaround by councillors.

Mayor Andy Foster proposed an amendment to fast-track temporary cycleways at a… Read more Audio

Fears of a second volcanic eruption near Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have led to another mass exodus from the city.

Tens of thousands of people are evacuating - many on foot… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

A Hawke's Bay woman has expressed her anger after the region's hospital delayed her mother-in-law's surgery for weeks, while she was waiting in a hospital bed.

On Wednesday, Jakie Livingston's… Read more Audio

New Zealand's National Pest Management Plan for kauri dieback is incomplete, 3.5 years after government departments started working on it.

Budget 2021 allocated $28 million towards the plan.

But… Read more Audio