Morning Report

It's been 107 days since there was Covid-19 in the community - four days longer than the country's previous record.

But as the virus takes off in other countries once held up as shining lights of… Read more Audio

A woman involved in Saturday's helicopter crash near Christchurch was able to describe the horror of what happened by phone to her husband soon afterwards.

All four people on board the chopper remain… Read more Audio

Black Caps spinner Ajaz Patel says there is no rivalry between himself and Mitchell Santner with a possible place in the World Test Championship Final against India up for grabs. Read more Audio

The move to recruit more police officers for the regions and to tackle organised crime has been put on hold because of the demand for officers at managed isolation hotels.

The police had wanted to… Read more Audio

Opponents of a mega-landfill north of Auckland are preparing for what they're calling a "colossal" legal fight to stop the tip from going ahead.

On Monday a panel of independent commissioners granted… Read more Audio

A Wellington property owner whose house was destroyed by a fire in Newtown on Sunday night says the adjacant property was an accident waiting to happen.

Bill Guthrie has owned a house on Hanson St… Read more Audio

Arthur Allan Thomas - framed by police for the infamous murders of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970 - is on trial accused of historical sexual offending.

A two-week trial in the Manukau District… Read more Audio

Cyber crimes are on the rise, but authorities are blind to just how big the problem is.

That's because there are more than a dozen government agencies and other groups who report, analyse and fight… Read more Audio

Among the most ardent critics of the government's electric car incentive scheme is the National Party, who says it will immediately reverse the policy if returned to power.

Leader Judith Collins says… Read more Audio

The Auckland chapter of the youth environment group 'School Strike 4 Climate' has declared itself racist and disbanded.

Inspired by Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg, the… Read more Audio

The Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio wiped away tears yesterday when announcing his government will officially apologise for the Dawn Raids of the mid-1970s.

The raids… Read more Audio