Morning Report

Whakatane-based singer Maisey Rika came in to RNZ with singers, Te Rina and Erica Ransfield to perform and talk about the song, Te Puketapu ki Paepaeaotea, which she composed at the time of the… Read more Audio

Home ownership rates are the lowest they've been in 70 years, and dropping.

First home buyers trying to crack the market are fighting against investors, cash offers and soaring house prices.

First… Read more Audio

A woman sexually abused by her foster father for many years says she was abandoned by Anglican Social Services which placed her in care.

The witness, known as Ms M has given evidence to the Royal… Read more Audio

Mental health patients are still being locked in small sparse seclusion rooms despite being told to end the practice by the end of the year.

It's five years since the United Nations Committee on… Read more Audio

Britain has become the first country to begin using a fully tested vaccine against Covid-19.

The first person to receive the jab was 90-year-old Margaret Keenan who described the moment as "the best… Read more Audio

Kiritapu Allan is the MP for the East Coast and was in Whakatāne on the day of the Whakaari eruption. 

She is also Minister for the National Emergency Management Agency - or Civil Defence. 

She… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

The National Party leader Judith Collins is urging caution over the changing of hate speech laws.

Among the recommendations in the Royal Commission into the Christchurch Mosque Attacks is to broaden… Read more Audio

The Royal Commission into the Christchurch terror attack has released its findings and reccomendations.

A recommendation of the Royal Commission is that a new offence of hate speech be introduced… Read more Audio

Royal Commission into the Christchurch terror attack in 2019 has released its findings.

Fifty-one people were murdered on 15 March as a terrorist went on a rampage.

Government agencies have… Read more Audio

Some of New Zealand's most successful Olympic events have been dropped for the 2024 Paris Games. Read more Audio

An investigation is underway after fire crews put out four fires on Christchurch's Port Hills on Tuesday night.

They are being treated as suspicious.

Christchurch reporter Eleisha Foon speaks to… Read more Audio