Morning Report

Migrants working remotely overseas and their New Zealand companies are calling on the government to let them back in - after 16 months of working from another country.

One man stuck in Brazil is… Read more Audio

A patient advocate for people living with epilepsy has called just-released coroners findings a "wasted opportunity".

The chief coroner has this morning released her report into six deaths that… Read more Audio

Campaigners say people with rare illnesses have been put on the "losers list" and left to die because Pharmac hasn't been funded enough.

The government has boosted spending for its drug buying agency… Read more Audio

The Government is being accused of leaving middle New Zealand behind in the Budget - as political leaders butt heads at Parliament.

Front and centre in yesterday's announcement is the $3.3 billion… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

When all added up, the budget promises $2.3 billion to be spent on projects to reduce carbon emissions.

But environmentalists says this is woeful, and time is running out to take steps to reduce our… Read more Audio

The Salvation Army says the government's boost to benefits doesn't go far enough to lift families out of poverty.

Benefits will increase by $20 a week in July, with a further increase next April… Read more Audio

American popstar Demi Lovato has announced they are non-binary and will be using the pronouns they/them.

Lovato, now aged 28, was a Disney child star before entering the music industry. They are… Read more Audio

Māori will be the focus of this country's first trial of screening for lung cancer.

It's been made possible by a grant of nearly $2 million from the Health Research Council and the Global Alliance… Read more Audio

Revitalising te reo Māori in a region with no native speakers starts with individual whānau. 

That's the message being delivered to a sold-out audience of almost 500 people at Marlborough's first… Read more Audio