Morning Report

If you feel like red meat is more expensive than it used to be, you're right.

The price of some of the most common cuts has risen well beyond inflation.

Farah Hancock reports on how New Zealanders… Read more Audio

Veteran broadcaster Philip Sherry has died at the age of 87.

His family says he passed away peacefully yesterday after a short illness.

Sherry was one of the country's longest-serving newsreaders… Read more Audio

Larger people with high body fat percentages may need longer needles so Covid-19 vaccinations make it deep into their muscle.

There is no exact criteria in New Zealand saying who needs this apparatus… Read more Audio

New Zealand's presence in the Olympic Athletes Village in Tokyo has swelled by more than 150 following the arrival of swimmers, boxers, rowers and hockey players yesterday.

It coincided with a second… Read more Audio

Work is underway this morning to clear debris, assess damage and re-open vital routes to reconnect severed South Island communities.

Waka Kotahi is urging motorists to drive with care on some… Read more Audio

The Buller and Marlborough districts were both hit hard by heavy rainfall at the weekend.

But sunshine is forecast for both regions today.

Philippa Tolley spoke to Metservice meteorologist Amy… Read more Audio

Residents evacuated in flood-hit Buller are still reeling this morning.

Close to a thousand people had to flee to evacuation centres and at least one hundred homes have been flooded.

Jamie Cleine is… Read more Audio

Farmers across the upper South Island are on clean-up duty today as damaging flood waters recede.

Federated Farmers Marlborough president Scott Adams is one of those.

Portions of his sheep farm near… Read more Audio

The Government is committing six hundred thousand dollars in emergency relief to the districts of Buller and Marlborough to help deal with the flooding.

The announcement came after Acting Minister… Read more Audio

Age is proving to be merely a number for New Zealand's most experienced athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics.

For several of the 211 strong team, the Games in Japan will be their fourth or fifth… Read more Audio

Farmers across Marlborough are picking up the pieces this morning following the weekend's devastating floods.

Hundreds of people across the region were forced to evacuate as the area was hit by its… Read more Audio