Morning Report

Auckland Council has signed off on its record $32 billion 10-year budget.

It aims to support the city's recovery from the impacts of Covid-19 and deliver on important infrastructure needs.

Mayor… Read more Audio

A Wellington bus driver dumped a 10-year-old girl in an unfamiliar suburb in the pouring rain, after failing to drop her at school.

The bus company has admitted multiple failings from its driver, and… Read more Audio

To Miami, where a sixth day of searching at the site of the collapsed seaside apartment building has revealed no further survivors.

There are still 150 people unaccounted for, while 11 bodies have… Read more Audio

The Abuse in Care inquiry looking at abuse of young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s, has concluded.

After two weeks and two days of a public hearing and about 40 witnesses -… Read more Audio

People living along Wellington's Breaker Bay were evacuated last night in anticipation of huge swells.

Waves as large as eight metres have pummeled the South Coast and aren't expected to die down… Read more Audio

The Government is under pressure to explain exactly what the proposed new hate laws would mean for criminal offending.

A new, clearer offence in the Crimes Act may be created with penalties that… Read more Audio

Kawerau's paper mill shuts today amid questions about what contamination it leaves behind.

An iwi campaigner for a cleaner Tarawera River says the Norwegian operators are exiting, quickly, without… Read more Audio

A Central Otago distiller is hoping the "white stuff " blanketing the region will boost the quality and flavour of his whisky.

The polar blast has caused temperatures to drop below freezing at… Read more Audio

The Abuse in Care inquiry looking at abuse of young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s, has concluded with one survivor saying the darkness and shame carried by all survivors has… Read more Audio