Morning Report

Aucklanders wake this morning to the reality of at least another week in alert level 4 lockdown. The rest of the country is staying in level 2.

Cabinet will review the settings next Monday. Heart of… Read more Audio

People in South Waikato say the tight nature of their community got them through lockdown.

The district gratefully went into Alert Level 2 this week along with most of the country.

Tokoroa became a… Read more Audio

The neighbours of a controversial composting and worm farming business in North Taranaki have had their noses put out of joint by a regional councillor questioning whether their olfactory organs are… Read more Audio

For the last 20 years Amina Hassanpoor has worked to improve women's rights in Afghanistan.

Right now, she is sitting in an MIQ hotel with her husband and two teenage children.

She was one of the… Read more Audio

At least 15 rest homes are turning down new admissions because the migrant nurses they've hired can't get into the country.

Short-staffed care homes are regularly firing out official notices to the… Read more Audio

Kaupapa Māori vaccinators and testers are being forced to take breaks while Pasifika contact tracers are described as "frayed at the edges".

In the fight against Covid-19, burnout has become a… Read more Audio

Queenstown's mayor says he is "intensely angry" with the Auckland couple who flouted lockdown rules for an illegal jaunt to Wanaka.

Jim Boult says the escapade has put the town's health and economy… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

Schools outside of Auckland reopened their doors last Thursday after nearly three weeks of classes over Zoom.

Principals across the country have said that few students are arriving to school with… Read more Audio

Urgent retrofitting of older building stock is needed to reduce the risk of Covid-19 in New Zealand's schools, according to several of the country's leading public health experts.

They say that New… Read more Audio

The mayor of Auckland thinks moving down alert levels this week is looking increasingly unlikely after mystery cases of the virus were found at Middlemore Hospital.

But if the alert level coming down… Read more Audio