Morning Report

The mission to reunite a young orca with its family has become an international effort.  

Up and down the country, whale watchers are on the lookout for the orca pod, and the Department of… Read more Audio

Fifteen crew from the Viking Bay, who have all tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, are now in MIQ in Wellington. But unlike Jetpark in Auckland, the Wellington MIQ hotel is used by both sick and… Read more Audio

Dairy exports earned New Zealand almost $16 billion last year, but can it continue?

Dairy giant Fonterra has flagged milk production is likely to flatten, or even decline.

So what's the plan?

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Despite declaring a climate emergency last year, Aotearoa imported more than one million tonnes of low grade coal from Indonesia.

Imports of the fossil fuel in 2020 were six times larger than in… Read more Audio

Watercare's $145 dollar water treatment plant is opening in Tuakau today and the company insists it is one of the last times it will dip into the Waikato River.

The facility will provide Auckland… Read more Audio

Texas Democrats have left the US state en masse in an effort to prevent Republicans there from passing a law to tighten voting rules.

Fifty House Democrats boarded two private jets to Washington… Read more Audio

In South Africa at least 45 people have now died in the violence that has been engulfing parts of the nation since the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma last week.

This toll includes ten people… Read more Audio

Farmers are being encouraged to bring their Ute and their dogs to protests at towns up and down the country.

They're taking aim at the Government's increasing interference in farmers' lives and… Read more Audio

Large blue billboards bearing the face of National Party leader Judith Collins and the message: "He Puapua? Demand the Debate" have sprung up around the country.

This is a reference to the… Read more Audio

A medical specialist says 15 foreign fishermen, who are in MIQ in Wellington, pose a risk and should be kept locked in their rooms.

The men, one of whom has the Delta variant, are among the crew of… Read more Audio

In the same year that the government declared a climate emergency, imports of dirty coal from Indonesia topped a million tonnes.

That's only the second time it's happened in two decades.

Imports of… Read more Audio